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[marijan <marijan.miksa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, i've been reading this all and I think I might help a litle; since
dates are nowadays (allthought dell inspiron 8000 isn't) maybe someone
will read this and find usefull. I have the same laptop and problem with
several distros: debian 50, ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, kubuntu 8.10, 9.04 some
rescue cd-s, but NOT with debian based knoppix and sidux - they read
hardware perfectly. When asking for help my friend point me to correct
direction and i solved problem. The trippled picture has nothing to do
with ati mobility, but with screen! it is extraordinary quality then and
today! So hardwer detection and instalation scripts mix up the
frequences and become stupid. The solution is manualy edit xorg.conf. I
copied parts of xorg.conf file from this two live distros and edit a
little section "monitor", and now I'm using it allways when needed with
copy-paste & ctrl+alt+backspace, then the picture becomes perfect
1400x1050 resolution. Here is my file:

 
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier     "X.org Configured"
Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "GLcore"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "dri"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "glx"
Load  "record"
Load  "xtrap"
Load  "freetype"
Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver      "mouse"
Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName    "Monitor Model"
HorizSync    31.5-90
VertRefresh  59-75
Option      "PreferredMode" "1400x1050"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver      "r128"
VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName   "Rage Mobility M4 AGP"
BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "Card0"
Monitor    "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth     1
EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
#Depth     4
#EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
#Depth     8
#EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
#Depth     15
#EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
#Depth     16
#EndSubSection
#SubSection "Display"
#Viewport   0 0
#Depth     24
#EndSubSection
Subsection "Display"
Depth       24
Modes       "1400x1050"
EndSubsection
EndSection

I commented sub sections of display cause I want only top picture so I'm not interested in lower color depths.
I hope this will help a little.

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[M4] Dell Inspiron 8000 shows split display on LiveCD
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