Hi. Just a shot in the dark... could it be that your LCD is fuzzy when you start up your computer with an external monitor hooked up? If that is the case try to change your driver back to ati, unplug the external monitor and reboot the machine (don't just restart X... you have to completely reboot). After the machine boots up you can hook up the external monitor without any problems.
I have an IBM ThinkPad T30 with the same display adapter and I had problems with it when an external monitor was hooked up to it at boot time. The image on the LCD got fuzzy and very large. When I booted up without the external monitor everything was ok on the LCD. Let us know if that solves anything. If it does, I may be able to help you out some more with getting it working with dual heads if you're interested. I'd be interested to know if anybody knows what the deal is with the "boot up won't work unless you don't have an external monitor connected" problem. Is this a bug in the display adapter, the BIOS (in which case this message will probably not help Jordi) or the X server??? Regards, Stefan. Jordi Castro (mi�vikudagur 22. jan�ar 2003 14:58) > Hi > > I am fairly a newbie to configuring XFree86, and I am having problems with > an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 on > a laptop Compaq Evo N610c. The information provided by /sbin/lspci about > the card is: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 > LW (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00b7 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 > Region 0: Memory at 48000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] > Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] > Region 2: Memory at 40400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 > Status: RQ=47 SBA+ 64bit- FW- Rate=x1,x2 > Command: RQ=31 SBA+ AGP+ 64bit- FW- Rate=<none> > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > > I am using Suse8.0 (Xfree86 4.2.0). Xfree86 only works with the fbdev > driver (I used it > following suggestions of the Suse support). However it is fairly slow. > The drivers ati and radeon, provide a "fuzzy" image (text and images > aren't clear). > > I read several internet articles about people that uses this card (or > similar) on other laptops. The XF86Config files provided buy them don't > work in my system. Some of that people suggested me to upgrade to XFree86 > 4.2.1. I did it, following the distribution of XFree86 4.2.1 by SUSE in > http://www.suse.de/en/private/download/xfree86/index.html (in fact they > name it 4.2.0 > but state that all the patches for 4.2.1 are already included). > But XFree86 again only works with fbdev (ati and radeon have the same > problem). fbdev, however, > works better (e.g., some applications doesn't crash, as Vmware). > > I don't understand why other people can use this graphic card and I cannot. > Is a problem of the Compaq EvoN610c? Or is a problem or the Suse XFree86 > distribution? > One person suggested me to get the source of XFree86 and compile from > scratch on my > machine. Do you believe that will work? Would'nt it interfere with the > current .rpm suse packages > about Xfree86? > > Sorry, a lot of questions, but I am completely lost. I already asked to > some linux-experts of my University, and they don't know what to do. > > Thanks in advance. > > Jordi > > ========================================================================= > Jordi Castro > Statistics and Operations Research Dept. Phone: +34-93-4015854 > Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Fax: +34-93-4015855 > Campus Sud, Pau Gargallo 5 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 08028 Barcelona (Spain) http://www-eio.upc.es/~jcastro > ========================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
