Re: Wavy Screen using 'Option "Display" "CRT"' on ATI 128 Rage Mobility
Okay, here's another little oddity--if I use the laptops function-F8
key combination to switch over to the external monitor manually
*before* I start up X (with the diplay option set to CRT), it comes up
clear as a bell (and thinking it's hooked up to a CRT--it will let
me display 1600x1200, for instance, which the FP won't let me do).
If I start up on the FP, and switch using the function key, it
will still only give me the FP stuff--1600x1200 won't come up.
I'm also having trouble switching back to the FP--in text mode--
after running 1600x1200. And trying to set the display option to FP
when starting from the CRT gives me what looks like a very dim 1024x768--
kind of like a solar calculator display might look during an eclipse.
I'm kind of baffled, here. If anyone has any ideas, let me know. Also,
I'm posting these kind of simultaneously on the debian-laptop, xfree86
newbie, and xfree86 xpert lists. If whichever list your reading this on
isn't a good one for me to post this sort of thing on, let me know. I don't
want to be a nuisance--I'm just not sure which forum would be the best.
Thanks!
--Daniel
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:32:34AM -0600, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote:
> I've been working on a Dell Latitude C600 with an
> ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (or something like that).
> I want to be able to start X up on an external
> monitor (as opposed to switching using the FN-F8
> key combo after X has already started on the LCD).
> My understanding was that adding the
> Option "Display" "CRT" line to the Device section
> would do this--and indeed it does, except that
> instead of starting up clear (like the screen
> looks if I switch over using the FN-F8 combo),
> it's all wavy and jittery--not flicker such as
> you get with a low refresh rate, but more like
> every other or every third line of pixels is moving
> from side to side very rapidly, or something.
>
> Like I said, if I use the CRT/LCD button to switch,
> it works fine. But I want to be able to start up
> on the CRT so that I can get a better resolution
> and refresh rate. Any ideas? Thanks in advance--
>
> --Daniel
>
> P.S. I'm running Debian GNU/Linux unstable,
> XFree86 4.1.0.1 (according to X -version) on
> kernel 2.4.9. Here's my XF86Config. Let me know
> if you need more info or have an idea.
>
> XF86Config:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "dri"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "glx"
> Load "pex5"
> Load "record"
> Load "xie"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "keyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "GlidePointPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "HWP"
> ModelName "HP75"
> HorizSync 30.0 - 86.0
> VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Option "Display" "CRT"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "ati"
> VendorName "ATI"
> BoardName "Rage 128 Mobility LF"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Card0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x960"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
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