On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:49:44PM -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: > > Greetings, > > Is there a way of switching between the LCD and CRT on a Dell Inspiron > 600m? > > The video specific output from lcpic -v: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 > [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 011e > Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, stepping, 66MHz, medium > devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 > Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] > I/O ports at c000 [size=256] > Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > [virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > > > I've done a clean installation of F8. I have radeontool installed. I can > get it to turn off the LCD, but I can't get it to deliver output to the > CRT port. > > On bootup, I can use Fn+F8 (CRT/LCD) and see that the flip can be done. > However, it disappears after the splash screen disappears. > > I've done some searching via google and the ubuntu pages mention the use > of i810switch. However, there are no i810switch rpms on Fedora sites. > There are some older > source packages available on the DAG repository for older versions of > Redhat/FC*. Is the i810switch the one which should be used? no, that's only useful for some Intel video chips (i810, i910, i965 or so). It's removed from Fedora 8 in favor of xrandr. Does xrandr work for you? -- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
