RE: Dell laptop, external CRT

I have the dell CPi 266 model, I have only really tried hooking an
external monitor with 4.5 and 4.6.  

Everything is fine in console mode, but when I issue the startx command
it just goes to a blur.  Maybe upgrading X might solve the problem?





-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Durham [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 8:53 PM
To: Adam Ryan; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Dell laptop, external CRT


On Sunday 28 July 2002 09:06 pm, Adam Ryan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running the latest FreeBSD 4.6 stable.  It seems that when I have

> my laptop hooked up to an external monitor, it only will run in 
> console mode.  When I try to start X, there is just solid blur on the 
> screen.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get X to run externally ( to a CRT ) from 
> my laptop?
>

Which Dell Laptop? They have vastly different video hardware depending
on the 
model. Also, did X run on an earlier FreeBSD version and this happened
only 
after you upgraded the OS, or is this the first time you've run X at all
on 
the laptop?

I'm running 4.5-RELEASE with XFree86 4.03 on a Inspiron 4000. This is
the rage 
Mobility 3 and I use the r128 driver. It works fine on both the internal
and 
external screens. The only problem I have is that I haven't yet figured
out 
how to make it auto-detect the correct resolution. I have to manually
change 
from the 1024x768 internal res to the 1280x1028 external monitor's 
resolution. There are various options for configging the r128 driver to 
handle external monitors in the XF86Config-4 file. They are outlined in
the 
man page.

-Jim




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