Comment 149 for bug 301958
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| Pander (pander) wrote Re: [needs-packaging] no working driver for sis 671/771 video cards | #149 |
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With a fresh Maverick installation without this driver, my laptop screen is disabled when I boot with an external screen. After installing this driver, and booting again with external screen, which works fine, my laptop screen shows many coloured vertical lines in a reasonable static way that can burn into the laptop screen.
The laptop also has a special button for enabling and disabling laptop screen and external screen, but that doesn't work now but used to work with Karmic and this driver. However, the special buttons for brightness do work. One other issue is that Monitor Preferences in System / Preferences unaware of my screens.
This results in the following questions:
- How to have Monitor Preferences be aware of my screens? Detection does not work. Can this be fixed? What workaround exists by manually enriching xorg.conf? What tools or websites can I use to find out the proper refresh rates?
- How to get the laptop screen working properly when booting with external monitor also to prevent burn in?
- How to get the special button for enabling and disabling screens working?
I hope these issues can be solved. Who would like to help to improve the driver or manual can all to enjoy?