Re: External monitor in X
One word of warning I should mention. For some reason, every once in a while the
graphics get screwed up, especially on the enlightenment menus and application
scrolling. A quick solution to this is to drop down to a virtual terminal ctrl+alt+F1
and then switch back to X alt+F7, then everything should be back to normal although you
may have a slightly messy screen, but that can be tidyed up by moving or
shade/unshading the windows...
Its a small price to pay and means you dont have to restart anything...
Johnny.
> > Thank you for your answer. I am running the modified xserver Mach64 from
> > Steve's Dell-pages. What version of debian are you running? I cannot find t
> > he xserver corresponding to ATI Rage 128 (generic) from potato (that you
> > said you are using). I can get external monitor working if I set 'only CRT'
> > option from BIOS but this is very annoying because if I forget to set it
> > back to LCD before I shutdown the machine, I will have no screen at all
> > on the road!
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> Last weekend I gave storm linux a try out and it does auto detection of
> hardware. It reported my video card as an ATI Mach64 3D Rage Pro. I didnt
> like storm that much, so I reinstalled debian potato and therefor X using
> 'XF86Setup' and chose the card that storm had detected. I selected all the
> modes from 800x600 to 1600x1400(?), default 16 Bit color.
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