Thinkpad X40 and xorg-6.7.0-3

[Giuseppe Castagna]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 14:03, Giuseppe Castagna wrote:
>  use a commercial X-Server like Accelerated X [2].
> > 
> 
> I will try their demo driver. Thanks again
> 

I have tried the drivers from http://www.xig.com (with kernel 2.4.7-rc3)
and according the configuration I use it either crashes the system or
enters an infinite loop with the keyboard disabled. So, this does not
seem a viable solution.

In the meanwhile I found the obvious (once you tried it) workaround to
the corruption on external monitor. Simply boot the X40 with the
video-beamer plugged in, and the external output becomes the default
one: so the Ctrl-Alt-F1 Ctrl-Alt-F7 trick works on it, and overlay is
sent to it (so you can watch movies using xv on the external exit).

Jean-Louis Leroy has found a even better solution but that may not work
with xv (I have not tested it)


On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:27, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote: 
> 
> I'm in the same situation as you, it appears, and I didn't even know
> because I hadn't tried an external monitor yet.
> 
> But here are some good news: I found out that if I kill X after
> switching to the external monitor, the image returns just there. Okay
> I loose my session in the process but it's still better than rebooting
> to XP isn't it?


---Beppe---