I posted the following question about a week and a half ago. Due to the response (none) I suspect I'm asking in the wrong place.
Could someone direct me to a more appropriate place to ask questions about the Radeon driver for the Radeon Mobility graphics adapters? Thanks, dbr On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 13:33, David B. Ritch wrote: > I'm having trouble getting X to run on an external monitor and not the > internal LCD of my Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop. > > I'm running XFree86 4.2, and I'm using the radeon driver for the Radeon > Mobility M6 LY rev 0 graphics adaptor under RedHat 7.2 with the 2.4.28 > kernel. I've seen the same behavior with the A03 BIOS that shipped with > the system and the A06 that was just released. > > Here is the issue. Even though I've specified 'Option "CrtScreen"' > in the Device section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, whenever I start up the > X server with the laptop in its docking station, it starts on both the > built-in LCD and the external monitor. In order to turn off the > internal monitor, I need to strike the Fn-CRT/LCD keys about 3 times > (this toggles between the various settings of internal vs. external > monitor). > > I need to turn off the internal LCD display, because otherwise I'm > limited to a 60Hz refresh rate. In normal docked use, I don't open the > laptop (I can't - there is a monitor stand over it), so I can't strike > the Fn keys. > > Any ideas? > > Thank! > > dbr > -- > David B. Ritch > High Performance Technologies, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert -- David B. Ritch High Performance Technologies, Inc.
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