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? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
