Re: External Monitor on Trident CyberBladeXP (HP Pavilion n5415)
"Julian L. Hunter" <[email protected]>
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Hi John,
Would you mind sending me your XF86Config file? Maybe I can find
something in there to help out.
Cheers,
Julian.
John Clemens wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Julian L. Hunter wrote:
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>>Thanks Alan,
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>> - 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?
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>On my laptop (N5430, one generation before yours) I've gotten BladeXP TV
>out to work just fine, at least in mirror'd mode.... i don't rememebr if i
>tried CRT only. as Alan said, it appearrs to be machine specific.
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>> - 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.
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>I've noticed several anomolies when not cold rebooting...
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>> - The screen is shifted about 3-4 pixels to the right under X, I
>>tired xvidtune, no luck. Again this is a trivial issue.
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>Same here.. not just in Xv, but in general... i thought there was a patch
>to fix this at one point...
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>> 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.
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>Off topic, but read the cpufreq list archives.. you may want to try the
>rtdvs driver.. it works on mine. it shoudl tide you over until proper
>PowerNow! support is working.
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>My only major complaint about this laptop is the lack of 3D drivers ;)
>but i understand why there aren't any...
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>john.c
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