> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 20:58:45 -0500
> From: B Mohrgan Pratten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jim Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
linux-laptop mailling list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Dell with docking station
>
> Jim Roland wrote:
>
> >
> > 1) Even though I have added support for my Neomagic256 sound card
> > (integrated in the laptop) it still does not work. (unrelated to the
> > docking station problem)
>
> I am curious about this. What software support did you add to your system to
> support the Neomagic256(?AV)? I also have the Neomagic256AV in my ThinkPad
> 390X. But IBM states that there is a ESS Solo 1 in the computer as well. I
> have been wandering if that is the audio part of the Neomagic256AV ? To get
> the Solo 1 to work I use OSS sound from http://www.opensound.com/
There is support in the newest kernel (stable 2.2.14), however when I
attempt to use the /dev/dsp device, it tells me no such device (indicating
no sound card present).
>
> > 2) My external monitor (plugged into the docking station) does not work
> > (video signal is cut off) when I start X. If I abort X and go back to text
> > mode (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE), the screen comes back. The LCD screen does work
> > okay when not docked. I've tried uncommenting the "internal" and
> > "external" display options to the Neomagic video card in my XF86Config, but
> > no luck.
>
> Dose the laptop have a external monitor connector on the laptop it self? If
> so dose the monitor work connectred to that one? I have both the lines:
> Option "intern_disp"
> Option "extern_disp"
> in my XFe6Config and have no problem with the external display using X
> connected to the video connector on the back of my laptop.
My problem is with the docking station/port replicator, not the external
port on the laptop. The port replicator has an external port on itself
too. X does not use it.
> I don't know it that sort of information help at all, good luck
> Mohrgan.
>
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