I have checked my bios version and it is up to date, but the keys are the least of my concern). However I now have other questions and comments,
- Should I not be able to get the display to the external monitor? Why does the Option "Display" "CRT" turn off the LCD, but not enable the CRT?
- When rebooting to Linux from WindowsXP the X screen is like a negative I can see everything, but the color is messed up. Conversely, when rebooting to WindowsXP from Linux (X), Windows will freeze at the first non-text screen. (The XP logo with progress monitor). A hard reboot will fix either of these problems. I can live with these quirks, just thought it may be useful.
- The screen is shifted about 3-4 pixels to the right under X, I tired xvidtune, no luck. Again this is a trivial issue.
- Is it worth reporting all of these issues, or should I shut up? ;)
If anyone with a similar system has any of this working please feel free to jump in ;-). This and lack of AMD PowerNow support are the only things stopping this from being a great a Linux laptop (and powernow support is being actively developed), all other hardware is support in the 2.4 series kernel.
Cheers,
Julian.
PS: I am willing to send any information I can get from the laptop, so if you need anything just ask!
Alan Hourihane wrote:
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:57:10 -0500, Julian L. Hunter wrote:
Hello,It's very machine specific and very much to do with the BIOS and the
I have asked part of this question before and tried all the feedback, but still no luck. All I want to do is have the display a) on the LCD or b) on the external monitor on my desk. Seems simple enough right? Well after many weeks of frustration and despair, I am still at square one. I have tried the <fn>-<f5> combination (which is what works under Windows), no luck. So then I tried the Display "Option" "CRT", and this causes the LCD not to show the picture but does not display it on the CRT (so no diaply at all). I followed this by "BIOS" another option I found somewhere on the web, still no luck. So I have a few questions,
1) Is this possible with the current Trident driver (I took the one from http://xfree86.org/~alanh on Dec 1, 2002)? If so, how would I go about this?
2) The key codes do not show up anywhere (the <fn>-<f5> ones), how do these normally work on other laptops,are they intercepted by the BIOS and then processed or shoudl they generate key codes?
3) Is there a list of TODO's for the trident driver?
4) Finally, Has anyone on thsi list gotten this working?
If I ama asking these questions in the wrong place please let me know.
handling of those special Fn keys. Try and see if your BIOS is up to date,
that sometimes fixes problems. Other than that, I know it works on some
laptops but not all - again for the reason of machine specifics aren't
handled properly.
Alan.
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