Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:31:26 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam Ryan <adam@powersurge.net> Cc: Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell laptop, external CRT Message-ID: <20020729020125.GA55212@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <003a01c236a3$48a09d90$417719d1@powersurge.net> References: <200207282153.09993.durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <003a01c236a3$48a09d90$417719d1@powersurge.net>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Sunday, 28 July 2002 at 20:57:23 -0500, Adam Ryan wrote: > On Sunday, July 28, 2002 8:53 PM, Jim Durham wrote: >> 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. > > 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? This is a basic X setup problem. Your /etc/XF86Config contains incorrect information about the monitor. Check the following information, taken from a functional CPi 266: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Primary Monitor" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 31.5-57.0 VertRefresh 50-90 Modeline "1024x768" 75.00 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Primary Card" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "NeoMagic (laptop/notebook)" # Chipset "NM2160" # IOBase 0xfea00000 # MemBase 0xfd000000 # VideoRam 2048 # DacSpeed 90 # Option "linear" # Option "nolinear" # Option "sw_cursor" # Option "hw_cursor" # Option "no_accel" # Option "intern_disp" # Option "extern_disp" # Option "mmio" # Option "no_mmio" # Option "lcd_center" # Option "no_stretch" EndSection Check particularly that these lines are correct for your monitor: HorizSync 31.5-57.0 VertRefresh 50-90 Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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