[ltp] Radeon driver and Thinkpad Internal LCD

[Priyendra Deshwal]

Thanks Jan,

Your suggestion did the trick. For the record, the problem was solved
by setting the Boot Display Device option to Thinkpad LCD after which
the RADEON driver worked as expected.

-- Priyendra

On 7/13/05, Jan Stoess <stoess@ira.uka.de> wrote:
> Priyendra,
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> > The problem is that while on the port replicator, the internal LCD
> > refuses to come up. It gets illuminated (a very dark shade of gray)
> > but nothing comes up on it. I have the MergedFB option enabled and
> > have tried both Clone and RightOf mode but the internal LCD just does
> > not come up. All's well when the laptop's not on the replicator
> > though. Is this a known problem with the radeon driver?
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> I had to configure the screens in the BIOS appropriately to get dual
> screen working. In particular, if I enabled any of the external monitors
> in favor of the internal panel (e.g., LCD+DVI, or DVI) in the BIOS, xorg
> would fail to bring up the internal monitor. I needed to set up the
> internal LCD panel as the _only_ output device. Maybe you've got the
> same issue.
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> Best,
> -Jan
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