Re: ATI Mobility & XF86 4.0.3 on snapshot

[Ken <krice@research.suspicious.org>]

There is a bug in XF4 that makes X screwy on C600's and possibly
C800's. X will not drive an external monitor, use the internal
display. This is a know issue however I am not sure of the status of a
Fix. 

-Ken

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On Wed, 2 May 2001, Heikki Korpela wrote:

> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Fredrik Jafvert wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > I have a ATI Rage P/M Mobility in a Dell Lattitude that doesn´t seem to work
> > with the XFree 4.0.3 that was in a snapshot from last week. I´ve tried with
> > the ATI and ATIMISC driver but Xfree only returns "no screens". The vga
> > driver also seems only to work in 320x200 or something as small.
> > Ideas anyone? =)
> > /fj
> 
> Try XFree 3. See /usr/X11R6/README for details.
> 
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