So the consulting firm I'm with got sick of renting a laptop for me and decided it would be cheaper to purchase one. It's a Toshiba Satellite A65 from CompUSA. It's actually kind of a piece of crap. Don't buy one if you're planning on putting linux on it. And what designer makes a laptop with no serial or ps/2 ports, but feels that a parallel port has more uses and puts that on instead? ATI IXP southbridge, so the sound and video are both ATI. Atheros 802.11g wireless. Soft reboot doesn't work under any OS, even the one that shipped with it. In any case, I've got everything working except for the wireless and higher resolutions on the video card. I gotta have more than 1024x768 resolution on my external monitor. The ATI fglrx do not work on it (error says no card was found, even with the BusID specified). If I use the radeon driver that ships with X, I can get X working, but the max resolution is 1024x768. The log file for X shows that it's throwing away my higher resolutions because it thinks the hsync is too high, when it's not. At least this sorta looks like what the problem is. Is there a way to tell X not to throw out resolutions and just happily use them? It's actually the Radeon driver that tosses them. For some reason this email just sat in my outbox and in the meantime, I found a solution.... You need to load the "ddc" module in your XF86Config file. Works like a charm. Now I just need to figure out how to make Xinerama work properly across both the laptop screen and external monitor, so it decides on what's plugged in and starts appropriately. -jay _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list