Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 09:41:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: External Monitors? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971001093519.10485B-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <199710010604.PAA00645@word.smith.net.au>
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>> Has anyone listening here actually hooked an external monitor up to their
>> laptop under FreeBSD?
>
>Yes. Want to describe your problem a little beter?
Certainly! I was sorta tired and grumpy when I left last night, I mostly
wanted the moral support of knowing someone else had tried this! :-)
That aside, I do have specific questions...
I have a Viewsonic P815 monitor. It's huge, but the boss wanted BIG, so
... what the heck. It should stomach anything I can send at it, IMHO.
However, I don't seem to have any modelines for 1024x768 that work. I've
included my XF86Config below for grin's sake. What happens is 640x480
works, 800x600 won't lock up and I haven't been able to find a 1024x768
tht works at all. (I had an 800x600 line once that worked, but the
flicker was so bad I was about to get sick...so I pitched that
post-haste.)
This is on a TP560C.
SOOOooooOO, bottom line: anyone have modelines for 800x600 that will work
on both the laptop and the external monitor, and in addition a modeline
for 1024x768 that will not make me sick?
Thanks,
Brian
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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "ThinkPad"
VendorName "IBM"
ModelName "560"
HorizSync 25-79
VertRefresh 20-76
Modeline "640x480" 28.32 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
ModeLine "800x600" 28.32 800 808 1024 1040 600 600 626 640 +hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "GUI"
VendorName "Trident"
BoardName "9385"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "svga"
VendorName "ibm"
BoardName "bar"
Chipset "generic"
ClockChip "tgui"
VideoRam 1024
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "GUI"
Monitor "ThinkPad"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x400"
EndSubsection
EndSection
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