From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 28 18:53:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E6637B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 18:53:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from w2xo.jcdurham.com (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7669C43E31 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 18:53:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durham@jcdurham.com) Received: from jimslaptop (jimslaptop.jcdurham.com [192.168.5.14]) by w2xo.jcdurham.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6T1rHG77676; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 01:53:17 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Durham To: "Adam Ryan" , Subject: Re: Dell laptop, external CRT Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:53:09 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <003401c2369c$30919300$417719d1@powersurge.net> In-Reply-To: <003401c2369c$30919300$417719d1@powersurge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207282153.09993.durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday 28 July 2002 09:06 pm, Adam Ryan wrote: > Hello, > > I am running the latest FreeBSD 4.6 stable. It seems that when I have > my laptop hooked up to an external monitor, it only will run in console > mode. When I try to start X, there is just solid blur on the screen. > > Does anyone know how I can get X to run externally ( to a CRT ) from my > laptop? > Which Dell Laptop? They have vastly different video hardware depending on the model. Also, did X run on an earlier FreeBSD version and this happened only after you upgraded the OS, or is this the first time you've run X at all on the laptop? I'm running 4.5-RELEASE with XFree86 4.03 on a Inspiron 4000. This is the rage Mobility 3 and I use the r128 driver. It works fine on both the internal and external screens. The only problem I have is that I haven't yet figured out how to make it auto-detect the correct resolution. I have to manually change from the 1024x768 internal res to the 1280x1028 external monitor's resolution. There are various options for configging the r128 driver to handle external monitors in the XF86Config-4 file. They are outlined in the man page. -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message