Marcus Better wrote: > 1. When the system starts I have kdm on the laptop panel, and the VGA > monitor is in powersave mode. > > 2. I switch to a virtual console (vesafb). The laptop now shows > garbage in the form of some jumping horizontal coloured lines which > move and flicker a lot. The VGA monitor is now activated and shows the > console. >
Does it help if you drop vesafb completely? radeonfb might break things for sure, I am not sure about vesafb. > 3. Switching back to X restores the laptop display. Both the laptop > and the VGA monitor now show the same X session (like in clone > mode). (But the colours on the VGA monitor are fine, in contrast to > what I had before, see bug #440174!) Nice workaround :) > ~$ xrandr > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2304 x 1024 > VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x > 0mm > 1024x768 60.0*+ > 800x600 60.3 > 640x480 59.9 > S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > Not nice :( And there is no way to get VGA-0 back to work at this point? (apart from unplugging/replugging it) Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
