Best Laptop for Linux

[Jamon Camisso]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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

Another thing to try would be the radeon or fglrx driver(s) if you have 
one installed. I've found that replacing "ati" with "radeon" works well 
with my 9700 mobility. Not sure how this would work with an X700 though.
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