On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:37:52PM +0300, Torsten Reuss wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am running potato on a Dell Latitude with an ATI M1 grapics chip and > XFree86 3.3.6 and the mach64 X-Server. X correctly activates either the > internal or the external display, depending on whether I am docked or not. > > So fine so far, the only problem I have is that 60Hz on the external Monitor > are pretty annoying and 75Hz on the internal LCD cause quite some flickering > an making me afraid that the display will start to burn. Unfortunately I > have not yet managed to enable X to automatically detect what monitor I am > using and use appropriate settings. If anybody else did and can send me > his/her XF86Config I'll be happy for that. Links to documentation on these > issues are also welcome... >
You could do it manually, and make two XF86Config files. One for the monitor, one for the LCD. Set up startx to pass the appropriate -config option to X, and voila :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
