From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:59:21 -0500 From: Manuj Dhingra To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: VGA out/External Monitor on ibook 2 Message-ID: <20030120155921.GA22300@haar.ae.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, I know this has been asked before, but I did not come across any solutions, so let me appologise if I missed them. I have a: ibook 2 (white ibook from summer of 2001) 500MHz. It has a ATI Rage 128 graphics card which my OF calls ATY,RageM3p29s. The aty128fb module is used for video framebuffer, and I can't seem to get VGA mirror to work. case 1: Monitor connected at boot up The external monitor is fine at depth 8, resolution 1024x768-8@60Hz. Changing the depth (text mode) with fbset makes the font look like the wrong depth. It feels like font depth has changed but not the display depth. The internal-LCD display stays just fine. case 2: Monitor not connected at boot up The external monitor is "wavy". I turn the LCD off (m3mirror from benh) and play around with timings, resolutions etc. The "waviness" gets more or less but I could not find setting to make it stable. BTW, it is true for both a CRT and flat-panel. Internal-LCD is fine (at 1024x768). Has this been solved? If not, how can I help? Regards, manuj ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/