[ltp] Re: New A20p questions - sound and external monitor

[Bill Broadley]

I installed redhat-7.0 on a A20p (or whichever the 1400x1050 is),
I could get things to work perfect on the LCD or external, but when
I ran the external + lcd at the same time the external monitor would
drop sync periodically.  Apparently the ATI chip isn't quite up
to doing both at the same time at 1024x768.

Either that or our unit individually has problems, I did a deja news
search and found others with similar problems though.

XFree86-4 worked MUCH better then 3.3.6 that I had tried previously,
changing video modes worked, no dithering with the LILO/SVGA mode
and similar.  Previously I had to actually install different
lilo cofnigs and reboot to change resolutions.

Except for internal and external video simulatenously I'm pretty
happy with the unit, > 100 dpi on a lcd makes for a very nice
environment.  I'd consider it even for a desktop replacement.

--
bill

haveOn Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 05:55:11PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> jrogers@mjrogers.com writes:
> 
> > What I suspect is that because the video card in the A20p can run
> > two displays at once, it is screwing up the driver that ships with
> > XFree 4.01 and RH7. 
> 
> No, it's just that the driver in RH7 (as well as the driver in XF
> 4.0.2, I hear) can't handle an external monitor.  At all.  It's a
> pretty new driver, but I don't know if anyone is actively working on
> the external video.
> 
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