External VGA support on my laptop

[John Fruhwirth]

Thanks Jing, much appreciated.

...John

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:25 PM, jing <gargamel.su-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, John Fruhwirth <johnfruh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> > I have just re-executed aticonfig as super user with the following poor
> > result ending in an abort...
> >
> > johnfruh at eMachine:~$ sudo aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > [sudo] password for johnfruh:
> >
> >  Uninitialised file found, configuring.
> > Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-1
> >
> > *** glibc detected *** aticonfig: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer:
> > 0xbfd619d9 ***
>
> YIKES!  Well, sorry but I think that's the end of what I can do to
> help.  The only two other suggestions I can try to offer are:
>
> - try rebooting your system in single-user mode with NO X and retry
> running the aticonfig.  Maybe the utility is trying to maniupulate or
> probe memory that is causing interference with X and borking.
>
> - try blacklisting all ATI and related graphics drivers and reboot.
> This way no interfering modules are loaded which may cause probes from
> the utility to fail and die.  You can find the modules that are loaded
> by doing 'lsmod' as superuser.  You can find out what the modules are
> by using 'modinfo'.  Finally, depending on your system, you can
> typically blacklist modules by sticking them inside the
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file.
>
> - Finally, without an ATI card, I can't really try it out to compare
> results.  A google of "aticonfig: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer"
> showed quite a few results so you might want to browse some of them to
> see if any apply to your system.
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