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Hello NG,

i just bought myself a iiyama tft and tried to get it going under linux.
X is running, but it's impossible zu switch to another console.
everytime i try this, the sreen goes dark and i can't work with it any
more (even a shutdown is impossible then).
I was searching the web for the last to days, but couldn't find help
(starting to get frustrated).
Please, can anybody help me out?

Some facts:

Monitor: Iiyama AS4332UT D
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce4 MX 460 (rev a3)
OS: Linux (Debian Sarge)
Graphics Driver: Nvidia 1.0-4191
XF86Config-4:
...
Section "Device"
         Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
         Driver          "nvidia"
         BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
...
Section "Monitor"
         Identifier      "Iiyama AS4332UT D"
         HorizSync       24.8-80.0
         VertRefresh     60
         Option          "FlatPanel"
         Option          "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
         Identifier      "Default Screen"
         Device          "Generic Video Card"
         Monitor         "Iiyama AS4332UT D"
         DefaultDepth    24
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth           1
                 Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768"
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth           4
                 Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768"
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth           8
                 Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768"
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth           15
                 Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768"
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth           16
                 Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768"
         EndSubSection
         SubSection "Display"
                 Depth           24
                 Modes           "1280x1024" "1024x768"
         EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanx for Helping
Udo

Hi,
        I've just put a Samsung TFT on my system without any issue. Unless you have
changed your settings for X, there should be not difference. The only
possibility I can think of is that perhaps the TFT is not understanding the
signal your vidoecard is outputting. Try setting the X config back to a
standard monitor setting and see if it will respond to that.

Pressing ctrl+alt+f7 should get you back even if it won't display the
console session. As a debug, you could put a standard monitor back on the
PC (without changing any X settings) and see what happens then.

Finally, can you connect digitally ? If you can then you eliminate a lot of
the speed issues.

cio
Derek.

Thanks for answering,

Sorry, I forgot to tell, that I had a CRT running on the same system
before without any problems. So that can't be the problem.

Quote:> Pressing ctrl+alt+f7 should get you back even if it won't display the
> console session. As a debug, you could put a standard monitor back on the
> PC (without changing any X settings) and see what happens then.

As I mentioned, I already tried this (ctrl+alt+f[1-7]), but the system
doesn't response anymore. Even if I logged myself in on a console
session (as root) before I started X and tried to bo back to that
console and typing "reboot" blind doesn't work anymore. Also
ctrl+alt+del isnt't working anymore.

Quote:> Finally, can you connect digitally ? If you can then you eliminate a lot of
> the speed issues.

It is already connected digitally.

Quote:> cio
> Derek.

Maybe it has to do with this warning I get in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)

Greetings Udo

i solved half of the 2 problems (the shutdown problem):
/dev/apm_bios was missing so i installed apmd and no this works. also i put

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP" # Flat Panel
EndSection

in my XF86Config-4.

but still i only see a black screen when i switch to a console (at least
it is now possible to switch back to f7).

any ideas how to solve this problem?

greetings
udo