Best Laptop for Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:11:17PM -0400, Jason Shein wrote:
> I found out ( before I purchased ) that after installation X will not start. 
> The simple fix is to login on a terminal after installation and just add:
> 
> Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,AUTO"
> 
> to the Card-Section in xorg.conf
> 
> So it will look like
> 
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility X700 (RV410)"
> 	Driver		"ati"
> 	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
> 	Option		"MonitorLayout" "LVDS,AUTO"

I think I tried that before, but I will try that next time it is in the
office.  All it ever did was show a black screen and crash the system
when trying to start X.

Lennart Sorensen
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