Re: Different X settings for internal and external display
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:37:52PM +0300, Torsten Reuss wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am running potato on a Dell Latitude with an ATI M1 grapics chip and
> XFree86 3.3.6 and the mach64 X-Server. X correctly activates either the
> internal or the external display, depending on whether I am docked or not.
>
> So fine so far, the only problem I have is that 60Hz on the external Monitor
> are pretty annoying and 75Hz on the internal LCD cause quite some flickering
> an making me afraid that the display will start to burn. Unfortunately I
> have not yet managed to enable X to automatically detect what monitor I am
> using and use appropriate settings. If anybody else did and can send me
> his/her XF86Config I'll be happy for that. Links to documentation on these
> issues are also welcome...
>
You could do it manually, and make two XF86Config files. One for the
monitor, one for the LCD. Set up startx to pass the appropriate -config
option to X, and voila :)
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#define X(x,y) x##y
Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@llama.nslug. , ns.ca)
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