External Monitor

[Adrian von Stechow]

Can anyone explain to me in plain english how i set this up? I have a
rage128 mobility too...


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:59:01 -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich
<daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> You cannot use ofonly if you hope to use the external video connector on
> the Rage 128 Mobility. You MUST use aty128fb. You can supply boot
> arguments to turn on the external video connector, or use the m3mirror
> command to turn it on after boot. Also, pbbuttonsd 0.6.6-3 and later can
> be configured with a hotkey to turn mirroring on and off. Your XF86Config
> needs to be set up to handle your external monitor. If you want dual-head,
> the procedure is more complicated.
> 
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:09:42 +0100, Marcello Semboli wrote:
> 
> > Enyone can use external monitor or projector on YD 4.0, ibook with ATI
> > Rage 128 Mobility?
> >
> > I run system-config-display and set frame buffer as video card.
> > startx works well.
> > Then I connect external monitor and reboot with video=ofonly option.
> >
> > Ok, I can see boot messages both on external monitor and in the ibook
> > display.
> >
> > But when run startx, it crash.
> >
> > Please help  :-(
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > ________________________
> > Marcello Semboli
> > http://dinogen.hacknight.org
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