BTW, my suggestion #1 always is to check out the "Linux for Laptops" page (even if you don't run Linux) for your machine and see if anybody there has a working XF86Config for you box & screen.
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 09:29 pm, Mike Labriola wrote: | i just compiled xfree86-4.2.0 on my brand new sony vaio fxa59 and i'm | having some strange issues getting x to start correctly. here's the quick | rundown. | | everything compiled and installed fine, and i'm using the attached | XF86Config. as you can see from the attached XFree86.0.log file, there are | no obvious error messages popping up on me... but instead of getting a | nice x screen when i 'startx', i get a jagged lined (almost like chain | links) and speckled grey screen with a little white box in the upper left | corner (about 1" square). this is not the "x is running but there's no wm" | screen... | | the specs sheet that came with the laptop says it has an ATI 3D RAGE | MOBILITY-M1 and a 15.0" SXGA TFT screen that's supposed to run at | 1400x1050. | | now i was completely stumped for a while, but i've actually made a positive | discovery... oddly enough, if i plug a monitor into the vga out on the | laptop and switch the display over to it (which works) and then switch it | back to the lcd, the lcd works correctly. now, this is a good thing... | but having to plug the thing into a monitor whenever i want to use x kinda | defeats the entire purpose of a laptop... ;-) baby steps in the right | direction, though. | | if i log into x, do the external monitor trick, log out of x, and log back | in the lcd still does not work. (i have to do the external monitor trick | again) i also have to redo the external monitor trick if i do a | 'ctrl-alt-+' to change the active resolution. | | so, anyone have any idea whether this is a video card driver problem with | x? or an lcd compatibility problem with x? or just an XF86Config problem? | (starting to doubt that last one...) | | someone else i spoke with actually suggested that it might be a problem | with x not detecting the route from my video card to my lcd screen. is | this a posibility? | | thanks in advance! | | -mike | | ps - as an odd side note, when i attempted to install redhat 7.3 on the | laptop, the graphical install worked fine (doesn't that use an x-server?) | and it even succeeded in testing the video settings... but when i started | up x after installing, it did the same thing. but still, why would | redhat's graphical install and x test thing work during the install? i | believe the graphical install uses a framebuffer x server... but why would | that be so different? (i obviously don't know what a framebuffer x server | is, or i wouldn't present such a silly question...) | | pps - my appologies for the novel. ;-) you'de be writing books trying to | fix this too if your brand new $1700 laptop had no x. !@#$% -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
