Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:49:34 +0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X-Window display problem with Mandrake 7.0 on L110
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>I'm assuming if you have a monitor plugged in you can see the text login
>screens as the system boots?
Yes ... I can see the text login but not when X started.
>
>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'
Problem solved ... see my previous post :-).
>
>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...
>
I agree that I need to have a different setting for internal and external
display ... but I would prefer to have them all in one file and simply
switch settings by pressing some hot-keys to toggle them.
Thanks again for your kind assistance. :-)
--
Nik Ahmad Fahmi
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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