From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: VGA out on ibook2 From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Paulo Abreu Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, guile@mac.com In-Reply-To: <20011012083602.385%96000@smtp.netc.pt> References: <200110120459.XAA10187@lists.linuxppc.org> <20011012083602.385%96000@smtp.netc.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 13 Oct 2001 13:05:24 +0200 Message-Id: <1002971124.7091.1880.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, 2001-10-12 at 09:36, Paulo Abreu wrote: > > Linux PPC Developer Digest wrote: > >Hi > > I'm trying to use the external VGA connector on an ibook2 (the white > >one) with the benh utility m3mirror and, after turning crt on, the > >screen on the monitor looks "wavy" and unusable. > > Anybody could guide me to solve this problem? > > Same problem here. If I include the crt:1 option in the kernel booting > options, the waves dissapear and the console looks good, but the X > colors are all wrong. Looks like the crt is in 8bpp while X and the lcd > are in 16bpp. Tried this with 2.4.10-ben0. Do you use Option "UseFBDev" in X? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/