On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > I am experiencing two problems with the display on my laptop. > > 1) Most seriously, when the X server is in control, the display out > the external video port and/or the docking interface is total > garbage: a static pattern of vertical blue and green lines. The > external video works fine in VGA text mode. The "nv" driver that comes with XFree86 does not support hotkey switching. It will only work on the display that it booted to. Anything working beyond that is accidental. > > 2) The LCD panel display normally works fine. But if I leave the > laptop idle for awhile and the LCD panel shuts off, when I > reactivate it the screen is mildly garbled. It is at a lower > resolution than configured, and the origin is moved so that the > normal bottom of the screen is now smack in the middle, with the > normal top of the screen right below it. This clears up if I > switch to a text console and back. This is expected behavior. The X-server doesn't know anything about ACPI power management events and doesn't know when it needs to clean up after them. You might find that NVIDIA's binary drivers work better in this regard, since they have a kernel module that tries to deal with this somewhat. Mark. > > The laptop is a Dell Latitude C840. lspci says: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go] > (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00d5 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop+ > ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium > >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 32 (1250ns min, 250ns max) > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 > Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] > Region 1: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] > Region 2: Memory at dff80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K] > Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=128K] > Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA P > ME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 > Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- ITACoh- GART64- > HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4 > Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- > FW- Rate=<none> > > The kernel is Linux 2.4.21-pre5 + Debian patches. APM is in use, > ACPI not. The X server is the 4.3.0-0ds4 unofficial Debian package. > Attached to this message are my XF86Config and an Xserver boot log. > > Everything works just fine under Windows 2000 (so this is not a > hardware issue). > > I am not subscribed to this list; please cc: me on replies. > > zw > > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
