Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:09:32 PDT
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-Window display problem with Mandrake 7.0 on L110
Nik
I've been playing linuces of various flavours on my CT50 and generally they
seem to like them. I've just tried it with my external monitor and it's
quite happy.
But:
When I set up the X driver I told it to use a custom monitor with standard
VGA frequencies - which every monitor should be able to handle - and a
screen size of 640*480 with a virtual screen of 600*800 (cos I don't really
like virtual screens but some of the software needs more real estate than
VGA supplies)
If your monitor has gone into blinking orange mode then it's probably trying
to match a scan speed for your display - 800*480 IIRC? which isn't a
standard size...
I'm assuming if you have a monitor plugged in you can see the text login
screens as the system boots?
I'd try setting the lib to go external monitor only, then run XF86Config or
Xconfigurator and set the output to VGA (640*480) or SVGA (800*600) at
standard, slow, monitor rates. Either of those should give you something
useful to work with. I'd tend not to use a virtual desktop with the 800*600,
and probably keep the colour depth to 8 bits - playing can happen later. I
find the 'default' choice from Xconfigurator is sometimes enthusiastic and
selects rates that the monitor can't quite handle.
I suspect that the reason you can't see the bottom bar (I assume you can see
e.g the icons) is that your installation thinks the screen is 600 deep and
so it's drawing it 'off the bottom'
Last point: I suspect you'll have to create a second XF86Config file to
handle the lib when you don't have the external monitor plugged in due to
the differences in screen proportions. Somebody with more linux experience
than me should be able to help you...
Neil
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: X-Window display problem with Mandrake 7.0 on L110
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:05:56 -0700
>
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:13:00 +0800
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: X-Window display problem with Mandrake 7.0 on L110
>
>I got too much time yesterday so I decided to install Linux Mandrake 7.0
>on my Lib 110. Everything went smoothly except for X-Window. There are 2
>main problems:-
>
>1. I can't get X to work with an external monitor. Everytime I attached the
> Lib to the port replicator and started X, the monitor would go blank
>and
> goes on standby mode with its LED blinking orange. Is there a setting
> somewhere I need to tweak so that X would display on external monitor?
>
>2. When I'm using the internal LCD, X would start nicely but I can't see
> the bottom task bar where the KDE start button is. I have tried putting
> "Virtual 1024 1024" and can see more real estate but I still can't see
> the bottom task bar. Tried using xvidtune too but to no avail.
>
>I would very much appreciate if somebody can post their working XF86config
>file.
>
>
>Best regards,
>--
>Nik Ahmad Fahmi
>Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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