From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:44:14 +0100 From: Harald Welte To: Manuj Dhingra Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: VGA out/External Monitor on ibook 2 Message-ID: <20030209104414.GW13269@naboo.fugue.com> References: <20030120155921.GA22300@haar.ae.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030120155921.GA22300@haar.ae.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:59:21AM -0500, Manuj Dhingra wrote: > > 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. I have exactly the same model. > 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). Yes, I can confirm this behaviour. It's really annoying because I cannot use my iBook2 for any of my presentations at conferences... and I'm really too lazy to carry a second old x86 notebook with me. > Has this been solved? If not, how can I help? I'm not aware of any solution :( -- - Harald Welte / laforge@gnumonks.org http://www.gnumonks.org/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/