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 _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
