Hello, a friend of mine is running opensuse 10.2 on his IBM A31. He has problems using the external VGA port as a second display cloning the main screen using the default Xorg video drivers (tried both "ati" and "radeon"). The video card is a Radeon 7500 card sometimes also called Radeon LW. Basically X is running fine. I configured X using sax2 and enabled clone mode in a resolution of 1024x768. The primariy display runs fine however the external monitor that should display a 1024x768 desktop is simply black. It seems to get a signal however, since you can see it flickering a very short while when X starts but then its completely black, no matter what you do on the laptops primary display which is running fine. When you connect a second monitor and then reboot you see a cloned picture on both displays even when X has started. However in this case on the external monitor the resolution is 1024x768 but the desktop is larger so on the second display you only see part of the desktop and you have to "scroll" around. Once you unplug the external monitor and then restart the X-Server you will never see anything but blackness on the external display until you reboot. Does anyone know a solution to this? Thanks very much Rainer Krienke -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Krienke, Universitaet Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, Raum A022 Universitaetsstrasse 1, 56070 Koblenz, Tel: +49 261287 -1312, Fax: -1001312 Mail: krienke@uni-koblenz.de, Web: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke Get my public PGP key: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------