I can't remember if I asked this here or not. I know I had intended
to :) The thing is I can't seem to find anything about it in the
archives. Anyway...
I have an IBM Thinkpad A22m 2628 STU. It runs debian/woody with the
precompiled binary for XFree86 v 4.1.0.1. I have been running
successfully for several months using the LCD as the display.
However, I can't seem to do anything to get the external monitor
working (which is a shame because I have a nice 21"). In the "Device"
section for my ATI, I have
Option "Display" "BIOS" # <str>
Driver "ati"
I've tried
# Option "UseBIOSDisplay"
# Option "crt_screen"
neither of which work. What happens is that it boots up fine in
console mode. When I startx the monitor goes black. I then use the
hot keys to switch back to the LCD. At that point the image is all
garbled up. I have to switch to console mode and repeatedly use the
hot keys to cycle through the various LCD/ext.mon. combinations to get
a clear image again.
I'm a fairly competent C programmer. I doubt I could find the bug by
myself; however, I'm sure I could do some guided testing and
debugging. As so many other notebooks have this same graphics chip, I
wonder how many other people see this same behavior. I know I've
talked to one other Dell owner with the same thing.
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