From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 5:31:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spider1.spiderlink.com (www.ruiz.com [207.155.85.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E7C14D28 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 05:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: from zw9js (telesto.remote.qx.net [208.200.110.227]) by spider1.spiderlink.com (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-29967U60) with SMTP id AAA307 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 05:31:09 -0700 Message-ID: <00e601bea906$067b62c0$e36ec8d0@lexmark.com> From: "Jim Freeze" To: Subject: XFree86 and Blank Display when Laptop Docked Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 08:31:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a Dell Latitude CPi laptop with FreeBSD 3.1. I am using XFree86 to run twm and xterm. On the laptop's display, I can start an x session and view the windows just fine. However, when the laptop is docked, the `text` mode is visible on my monitor, but when I run startx, the screen goes blank. I believe the laptop uses the same NeoMagic card for both the laptop screen and the monitor. I think the docking station is just a pass-through for monitors. I could be wrong though. One possible caveat is that I have a DVD installed on the laptop. Part of the DVD is a PCMCIA card to decode MPEG2 from a dvd. I wouldn't think this would matter, but I'm not sure. Does anyone have a similar setup and worked through this before? Thanks ================== Dr Jim D. Freeze jim@freeze.org ================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message