I have the EXACT same problem with FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE. I haven't tried the
external monitor idea yet just because I *need* it to work on my laptop
display. If I have any luck, or hear anything I'll let you know. Please keep
me posted if you hear anything either.
Regards,
Kris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Planck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:27 AM
Subject: [Newbie]Gateway Solo 9550 Laptop Display issues
> Has anyone gotten X 4.1.0 (From Redhat 7.2) to work with a Gateway Solo
9550?
> I have Nvidia's GeForce2 GO driver installed and correctly working. I know
> this because X will work fine when outputing to an external monitor. When
> using the laptop display however I get a really cool looking white plasma
> look on the screen which eventually fades to an even gray. The machine is
> still running just fine (I can ssh into it and kill X) but I never get the
> display back, it just sits there nice and gray. I also tried disabling AGP
> with the "NvAgp" "0" option but to no avail.
>
> I suspect that the problem is with the hsync and vsync settings, which I
> can't find anywhere and Gateway won't tell me (they don't support linux
> *cheeky bastards*) I have used the generic laptop display setting and the
> NVidia driver entires in XFree86.0. log says that it expects vsync of 60
and
> hsync of 30-100, I have used these and just about anything in between.
>
> So has anyone gotten this to work and if so can I have a looksee at thier
> XF86Config-4 file.
>
> I have also attached my current config file and logs
>
> Thanks ever so much!
>
> This is a very good reason why corporate high ups shouldn't be allowed to
get
> the latest and greatest and then expect the IT people to make it magically
> work with everything they "have to have"
> --
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> Systems Administrator (505)838-0884 (Home)
> (505)620-2323 (Cellular)
>
> Institute for Complex Additive Systems Analysis
> New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
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