On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Joshua D. Knowles wrote:
>
> I recently installed Red Hat 7.3 on my Vaio notepad. Everything works
> except for the display, which has the following strange behaviour. If I do
> startx then I do not get a functioning display and I have tried lots of
> different settings in Xconfig - none work when I probe.
> HOWEVER, if I do startx with my laptop
> plugged into an external monitor AND THEN switch back to the laptop's
> display then I get a full, high-resolution picture and everything is fine
> from then on! (But I don't really want to walk round with a 19" CRT
> monitor).
It looks like X fails to setup video mode correctly. When you use hotkey
you actually have BIOS switching modes and it should do this task
correctly.
What does /var/log/XFree86.0.log say ?
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> Does anyone know why I get this strange behaviour and how to fix it? I
> guess there must be a quick fix since the display works perfectly after
> I do the switch.
>
> The details of the display and the video card are:
>
> 1400 x 1050 15" display
> ATI Rage Mobility M1 8MB graphic card
> I am using the XFree86 4.2 driver
>
> Thanks a lot for any replies,
>
> Joshua
>
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> Joshua Knowles
> IRIDIA,
> Brussels
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