Re: Can't run X on remote monitor

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 05/21/04 

Date: 21 May 2004 14:23:37 GMT

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:12:47 -0400, Mike Oliver staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
> Davide Bianchi wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Mike Oliver <mike_lists@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>just fine, but as soon as I start X, it's just a blue screen.
>>>[ Trying to use a projector with a Radeon video card in a Compaq
>>>laptop ]
>> Check the resolution and refresh you configured in your X env. and
>> the max resolution/refresh of the projector. Most projector can't
>> handle more than 1024x768 with 75Hz refresh rate.
> I'm using 1024x768 at 60 Hz, so I doubt that's it.

Look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Make sure you're using the
radeon X server, not the VESA one. Try putting the line
   Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT"
in ("man radeon" for info on what that does), restarting X, and trying
again. Many laptops have a switch somewhere on the keyboard for
selecting whether the LCD, the VGA-out, or both are active--push that
switch a couple of times so that both are active. Look in
/var/log/XFree86.0.log for anything weird, or if you can't find anything
weird, post that file on your webspace and follow up to this message
with a URL. 

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