On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 07:12, Leonard Sitongia wrote:
>
> I'm running XFree86 4.2 on Linux RH 7.2 on a Dell Inspiron 4100 with a
> 1400x1050 LCD display and an external monitor. This has the ATI Radeon
> Mobility LY (AGP) hardware.
>
> I'm trying to find documentation specific to the radeon driver, because the
> document for the "ati" driver in XF 4.2 says that the radeon is not supported
> in the ati driver, and to see the documentation provided with it's driver.
> I've searched with Google, and I can't find the documentation.
There's no manpage for the radeon driver yet, I might write one for
4.3.0 if I get around to it but to be honest there's a lot of other
stuff I'd rather do (hint, hint :)...
> I'm trying to use "crt_screen" to drive just the external monitor, i.e., turn
> off the LCD. For example, I configure XF86Config-4 for 1280x1024, and put
> Option "crt_screen" into the Device and/or Screen section, boot the laptop
> with the external screen plugged in with the Alt-F8 (BIOS?) switched so that
> both the LCD and CRT are on, but when I startx, both the LCD and CRT stay on.
> I was expecting the LCD to turn off.
Other people have reported the same behaviour with this option; I
suspect it may have got broken when multihead support was added.
What if you put
Screen 1
in the device section instead?
--
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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