Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:57:23 -0500 From: "Adam Ryan" <adam@powersurge.net> To: "'Jim Durham'" <durham@jcdurham.com>, <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Dell laptop, external CRT Message-ID: <003a01c236a3$48a09d90$417719d1@powersurge.net> In-Reply-To: <200207282153.09993.durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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I have the dell CPi 266 model, I have only really tried hooking an external monitor with 4.5 and 4.6. Everything is fine in console mode, but when I issue the startx command it just goes to a blur. Maybe upgrading X might solve the problem? -----Original Message----- From: Jim Durham [mailto:durham@jcdurham.com] Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 8:53 PM To: Adam Ryan; freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell laptop, external CRT 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
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