[Techtalk] Dell laptop with external monitor

[Robyn Manning]

Hi

There are some extra settings in the man page for XF86Config and one of
them is BackingStorem, this and others may be relevant.

hth
Robyn

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 19:59, tiera wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a question here. I'm using my Dell Latitude c840 with Redhat 9
> and can't get my external monitor to work when I start X. In text mode
> the external monitor works fine, but as soon as I start up X the monitor
> goes black. 
> 
> Now, I've run the X configuration tool and it finds and correctly identifies 
> the external monitor, but still no success. Network adapter and everything
> else connected via the docking station works fine. I've read a few
> guides on howto get this monitor to work, but they don't work for 
> me. I've made different XF86config files for docked and undocked
> situation, but without success. Eventhough Xconfig correctly identifies and
> sets up the external monitor, it still goes black when I start X. Any clues?
> If I check the logfiles for X no errors are found. It seems that X believes 
> that everything is fine, eventhough no picture is displayed on the external
> monitor. 
> 
> rgds,
> /tiera
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Techtalk mailing list
> Techtalk at linuxchix.org
> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
-- 
You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.