Kevin, Thank you so much for your help. I followed your instructions and it's working!! Marlena -----Original Message----- From: Benstead, Kevin [mailto:Kevin.Benstead@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:20 AM To: Miller, Marlena; xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Blank LCD display As it happens we have a Geode base system here (using XFree 4.4.0 but the config files should be the same) If you want to try this save your XF86Config file so that you can get back to it later. (I saved mine as XF86Config.old) I used the xf86config utility to generate a config file for me. It worked first time. After the mouse and keyboard sections the monitor selection comes next. I selected a standard VGA monitor and selected 50-70Hz vertical refresh. Next is the VGA card selection. I selected the VESA compatible driver (the first one on the list) and selected the amount of memory I have for video memory. Then it comes up with a list of possible modes it thinks we can use. For each of the colour depths (8, 16 and 24 bit) you need to make sure that ONLY 640x480 is allowed. When you edit each colour depth you are asked if you want a virtual desktop. Answer no. I then selected 16 bit colour as my default. The config utility then created my XF86Config file for me. I typed startx and X started straight away. Here are my critical sections. Section "Monitor" Identifier "Kevins 640 x 480- monitor" HorizSync 31.5 VertRefresh 50-70 # NOTE there are no Mode line in here. EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Geode" Driver "vesa" EndSection Section "Screen" # The Identifier, Device and Monitor lines must be present Identifier "Screen 0" Device "Geode" Monitor "Kevins 640 x 480- monitor" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection The ServerLayout section just points to "Screen 0" as its only screen and that's it. My thought is that there is some sort of conflict going on between the modes specified by the Monitor section and what is specified in the Screens section. The Viewport option makes sure that the your 'window' onto a virtual desktop starts at the top left. Otherwise it would normally start in the middle. This should not really be an issue as the monitor resolution is 640x480 which is what we have set the screen resolution to. Hope this helps. Kevin email: kevin.benstead@xxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 (0)118 971 5032 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
