On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 02:11:48PM -0800, Bukie Mabayoje wrote: > Nqnsome wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks again. > > > > Alex Deucher wrote: > > > > >>Alex is correct. Let focus on the primary display controller on > > >>PCI:0:2:0 with Display Pipe A and Display Pipe B. > > >>In your case you can only have PipeA=CRT and PipeB=LCD (LFP). > > >> > > >>That is why you have the following information > > >>(II) I810(0): Display Info: CRT: attached: TRUE, present: TRUE, size: > > >>(800,600) > > >> (II) I810(0): Display Info: LFP (local flat panel): attached: TRUE, > > >> present: TRUE, size: (1024,768) > > >> > > >>The problem is why XFree is saying there is no active display on Pipe B > > >> (II) I810(0): No active displays on Pipe B > > >> > > >> > > > > > >you can use the "monitorlayout" option to force on the pipes. see the > > >i810 man page. > > > > > >Alex > > > > > > > > Now I understand the "Pipes", but is still a mistery for me why lspci > > sees the 0:2:1, if it is a Windows "placeholder" (propably because I do > > not understand what a placeholder is...). > > > > Regarding the "No active displays on Pipe B", this probably happens > > because, before starting X, I disable the LCD with the keyboard sequence > > FN+F5. If I do not do this, the screen becomes unreadble > > I became aware of this problem few years back (since 2003). The first time I > experienced it was with a DELL laptop, and I didn't have free time then to > debug it when I actually had the laptop. I going to see if I can figure the > problem out (why the LCD is not working) just by reading the code.
I've already done work in this area. And I've got a driver up at http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html if anyone wants to test it. Alan. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
