On Mit, 2002-09-25 at 06:59, Lutz Maibaum wrote: 
> 
> --- Michel D�nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Have you tried Option "CRTScreen"?
> 
> I did, and it didn't work; but I probably did it wrong anyway...
> 
> I spent some time reading the archive of this list, and it seems to me
> that there is quite a bit of change going on with the radeon support.
> Maybe I should just wait for the next full XFree86 release (which
> apparently would fix the other annoying problem I have, the hanging X when
> switching back from a virtual console).
> 
> This is what I (someone who doesn't know anything about graphics drivers
> and related things) did:
> 
> Usually, I run X at the native resolution of my laptop display
> (1400x1050):
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier   "Screen0"
>         Device       "ATI Radeon Mobility M6"
>         Monitor      "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth    16
>         Subsection "Display"
>                 Depth       16
>                 Modes       "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
> "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubsection
> EndSection
> 
> My laptop has a hotkey that toggles between LCD only/external output
> only/both. If I turn on the external output, the video projector (which
> can take up to 1024x768) isn't happy at all, and displays garbage.
> 
> My first thought was to simply delete the first thee entries from the
> "Modes" section. Now I have a 1024x768 resolution, the video projector
> work fine, and I see the (scaled) image on my laptop display. This is not
> pretty, but it works.
> 
> Adding the option "CRTScreen" to this section doesn't look healthy on my
> LCD (and is probably not what you meant).

I think that's as good as it gets with 4.2.0 (without a dualhead
config). Current CVS should work much better.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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