On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:41:09PM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote: > Having updated my Dell Latitude CPx to testing last night, in order to > get OpenOffice 1.1, everything seemed fine until I attempted to use > atitvout this morning - in front of a roomful of students - to use the > CRT out as well as the builtin screen. > > It would seem that I have encountered a known problem (as in the > archive at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2003/debian-laptop-200305/msg00334.html). > > The suggested solution back in May was to install the ati.2 drivers > from gatos.sf.net. > > Unfortunately a) their web site doesn't seem to have a version for > XFree 4.2.1 which is the version in testing and b) I'd rather not mess > around installing xfree drivers from tgz files if I can avoid it. > > So, does anyone know of a Debian solution to this problem (i.e. a > solution involving .debs)?
I'll preface this by saying that I use a Dell Inspiron 8000 with an ATI Mobility M3 board, so your results may vary with your setup: Running sid, I have had no problems with atitvout. As a matter of fact, with regards to doing VGA output, I generally don't even need to use atitvout at all. Just using Fn-F7 usually does the trick. I generally only use atitvout for doing actual TV-out (via svideo). Although I am running sid and not testing, in all the time that I've been using my laptop (about two years now), I don't ever recall having a problem like this. And I believe (though I'm not sure) that two years ago Sid was using XFree < 4.2. I don't know if that's really any help at all, but that's just my results. Best of luck. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
