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Subject: Re: toshiba libretto l5 and xorg
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Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have an old Toshiba libretto L5 that ran FreeBSD 4-STABLE and XFree 
> 4.x without too much problems.
> 
> Now I installed 7.0-RC and the latest Xorg 7.3 (from the pkgs).
> The problem is that with the xorg and the ati or radeon driver (the 
> libretto has an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY) the display is not correctly 
> initialize resulting in a couple of mouse on the screen :-) and some 
> funny things even if it seem not to hangs .
> 
> Using the vesa driver the screen remain blank and the only solution is 
> to kill the X server.
> 
> So basically:
> 1) is there someone that has this laptop running happily xorg  and want 
> to share his/her configs ?
> 2) if it is a problem of xorg I can try today to compile xfree again but 
> the port is really outdated (4.5 vs 4.7) and deprecated too and there is 
> no package :-)
> 
> Any hints ?

You can try to explicitly set Virtual in your Display SubSection. This has 
been an issue for me with the switch to the new xrandr (which is really great, 
BTW.).