From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Feb 1 12:16:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9F737B400 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-33qtm3o.dialup.mindspring.com ([199.174.216.120] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Wk6c-0001mW-00 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:16:20 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g11JSYj00222 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:28:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:28:33 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Using VGA Output on a Dell XPi Message-ID: <20020201112833.A197@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 I'm using an old Dell XPi notebook PC. It is nice to be able to hook it up to a "real" monitor and keyboard. It has an "CRT/LCD" toggle control that works perfectly when I'm just using syscons terminals. It has three modes, LCD, CRT, and both at once. If it detects the VGA plug is being used, it automatically goes to CRT only. The problem is how to set this up right with X. Right now, if I am using the CRT and type 'startx,' the CRT loses its signal and a pattern of black and white horizontal lines show up on the LCD. If I Ctl-Alt-F1 back to the terminal, all is fine. On the other hand, if I toggle back to the LCD, and with the LCD enabled, type 'startx,' X comes up fine on the LCD (which it has for years). And if I now toggle to the CRT from LCD, X comes up on the CRT. It needs some tuning, but the picture on the CRT looks OK. Anyone have some clues for me how to avoid having to do the CRT-to-LCD-to-CRT toggling and still have X work? What would be good would be to be able to tell X which I'm using so I can get the mode right (my LCD is 800x600, but the video chip set can handle more pixels than that). It would be totally cool if X could figure out which device I was using on its own somehow. I tried some web and mail list searches, but didn't find anything on point. Just scrolling through XFree86 documentation didn't really give me any thing specific with respect to this issue. Has anyone had success doing these kinds of things? Anyone doing it with similar hardware? Any pointers to documentation that would be relevant? Thanks. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message