LCD screen "melting" in X

[Stuart Bishop]

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Andr'e Kuntze wrote:

| I have a DELL Inspiron 8600 including a ATI Radeon 9600 (mobile) and a
| 1920x1200 widescreen LCD.
|
| The card is supported by the ATI drivers but when i install the drivers
| and enter "fglrx" instead of "ati" in the XF86Config-4 i get serious
| problems. When X starts the screen fades to wide and than to some other
| colors. Looks like a pretty cool screensaver which i would call "Living
| in the 70s -- LSD involved" or something ;-) The only problem is that
| this won't go away. The system doesn't freeze or anything but you won't
| get a proper screen displayed.

I have the same system and have the same problem. I havn't chased it up
yet, instead using the default ati drivers.

| Switching to a console i get a normal text mode but switching back to X
| it starts to melt again.
|
| I really have no idea what i am doing wrong or what i could change.
|
| Any suggestions?? Any ideas are appreciated.

Apart from editing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and changing "fglrx" to "ati"
(incuding quotes) to get your GUI working again, I can't help. I
wouldn't mind seeing a solution or hints either ;)

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