SOLVED (Re: External Video on TP 380D w/Linux?)

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From: Jeremy D. Zawodny (jzawodn_at_wcnet.org)
Date: Mon Apr 12 1999 - 20:08:35 EDT

jzawodn_at_wcnet.org (Jeremy D. Zawodny) writes:

> I've had a ThinkPad 380D for about half a year now and it's been
> happily running various flavors on Linux. I've been using the binary
> X Server for the NeoMagic chip set provided by Red Hat software
> (XBF-neomagic-glibc-1.1.0-1.i386 to be exact).
[snip]
> After inspecting my XF86Config file, it would appear that I need a
> definition for the external video that the NeoMagic server groks.
[snip]

Actually, this was easy. All I had to do was enable the following
option in the "Device" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config:

  Option "extern_disp"

That was easy.

Woohoo! Now I have external video.

Jeremy 

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Jeremy D. Zawodny                Web Geek, Perl Hacker, etc.
http://www.wcnet.org/~jzawodn/   jzawodn_at_wcnet.org

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