I had a lot of issues with the ATI drivers on my laptop. I have the mobile 8500 or 8000 in my Dell and when I ran the ATI drivers it made my screen go crazy, it looked like it was buringing up. I made a few changes based on stuff I found on the Gentoo forums, but I still could not get external out working. I had to just use generic X.org drivers to get it to work which ment a max resolution of like 800x600. When I changed to to the generic X.org driver I just used the script that makes an x.conf file and it might have had the line you are looking for in it. I would send you a copy of it but I had to format my laptop and put WinXP back on it for some software I needed for class that has no Linux port yet.
That's the best advice that I have.
Josh
On 10/3/05, Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Hi All,
I have an IBM T43 laptop. It has a Radeon Mobility M300 PCIe graphics
card onboard. I'm having trouble getting it to switch to the external VGA
port. I can switch to the external output in console without issue, but X
does not respond to the ACPI switch screen events. I'm using the flgrx
drivers from ATI, so I think I may be missing an option in xorg.conf to
support screen switching. If you have any ideas I'm more than willing to
try them.
Thanks,
- Sebastian
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