On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Mark Carroll wrote: (snip) > Cool, thanks! FWIW, when it does work - when the CRT is connected after (snip) > (II) RADEON(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed (snip) This turned out to contain the important hint. Adding an Option "DDC" "off" to my LCD Monitor section has solved the problem! Thanks very much for pushing me along this line of thinking. (-: -- Mark