[ILUG] XFree, LCD and normal monitors

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:58:32PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
David Ryan thought:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a problem which there *must* be a solution to :
> 
> Laptop with display capable of 800*600 and card capable of more than
> that.  When the card is connected to an external monitor and a higher
> resolution than 800*600 is selected the driver (SVGA) complains that it
> is bigger than the "LCD panel" and won't work.  Somehow it seems to know
> that there is an onboard LCD display.  This happens even if we enter a
> manual monitor definition in XF86Config.
> 
Looks like the machine is tryint to display on both LCD and monitor
simultaneously.  Would it be something as simple as having two seperate
XF86Config's, one for each setup?  If the "External" XF86Config has no
info on the LCD panel, perhaps the SVGA server won't complain?

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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)