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Re: Getting second mirrored monitor to refresh properlywith a radeon



On Don, 2002-12-05 at 21:42, Ti Leggett wrote: 
> I have an IBM T30 laptop that has a Radeon 7500 (M7 LW) built in. What
> I'm trying to do is make it so that when I dock at my desk I can use my
> 19 inch monitor instead of the LCD. Right now, when I plug it in, it
> mirrors, but the refresh is set at 55kHz/50Hz. Obviously this is way too
> low to be good on the ole eyes. I tried bumping up the sync and refresh
> rates in my config as well as adding a specific modeline for my
> resolution and targeted refresh (1400x1050 @ 80Hz). All to know avail.
> It seems to detect the LCD and ignore the CRT all together.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
> 
> I'm running:
> RedHat 7.3
> XFree86 4.2.0
> dri-radeon 20020907

You should try a later dri-radeon snapshot, from November at least. The
driver has improved a lot in that area.

> If it helps, I'll attach my XF86Config-4 file later.

If that doesn't help, the log file would be interesting as well.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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