Re: iBook2 VGA mirror
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 23:35, James Tyson wrote:
> I have been playing around trying to get video mirroring working on my
> iBook, so that I can use a VGA monitor as well as my USB mouse and
> keyboard at work.
> I am having trouble with X not displaying properly when in mirrored mode -
> the console seems to work acceptably.
>
> I have been fiddling around with various refresh rates, etc - I noticed
> that the OF display works fine on the VGA output - which my Dell monitor
> says is 60KHz/75Hz - this doesnt work either.
>
> What I am actually seeing is either displaying in X with really really
> wobbly screen (xterm is not readible - it's that bad), it looks like a bad
> interlaced monitor but about 10 times worse. It also appears to have
> something to do with whether I am starting the video mirror from the
> console or X (can the mirror not handle video mode changes?) - if I start
> it from the console then flip to X I get a weird thing where windows
> appear to be ontop of each other and the wrong colours - the kind of thing
> you expect when your seeing the video but in the wrong video mode (like
> when you change from a console to X on a PC and there is still stuff in
> the upper video ram that hasn't been cleared out yet). If I start in X
> then I get the above mentioned "wobbly" mode.
You could try not using Option "UseFBDev" but Option "Display" instead
(man r128), but the server may fail to start up due to a segfault with
that configuration.
It should really work with your configuration though IMHO. Ben?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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