In other news, I was able to get most things to display correctly by either lowering the color depth or the resolution (also if I turned off hardware acceleration in display properties - 2nd to the last notch on the left - but that disabled the ATI HydraVision stuff).
The problem disappeared running at 2800 x 1050 @ 8 BPP, but that was a bit too low of a color depth for me, so I found that lowering the resolution to 2048 x 768 @ 32 BPP seems to work fine. Although, I wish I still had the extra screen real estate.
Well, I wasn't too happy with the decreased resolution of 2048 x 768, so I switched it back to 2800 x 1050 (just recognizing that I'll have a few apps with redraw issues. Some of these are IE 6.0 (bold fonts appear inivisble only on the CRT screen, but not when IE is on the laptop side of the desktop), MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint 2000 (various pieces of text appear invisible), Visual Sudio 6 (VB IDE contents of drop down menus in the code designer turn to blanks when cursor scrolls up and down, but only on the CRT screen, not the laptop side of the desktop). Most other apps seem to work fine including Firefox.
Another interesting note... I've found that if I have my desktop setup as expanded 2800 X 1050 and leave the ATI settings alone, I can cycle through laptop screen only (1400 x 1050), CRT screen only (1400 X 1050) and both/expanded (2800 x 1050) by simply using the laptop's Fn + F8 key combination. Cool. So now if I need to use a problem app, I can just flip my setup into single display mode, but I sure hope that Dell comes up with a fix for the ATI drivers in the future...
How long have you had this D600? Are you sure that it's the R9800 and not the R9000.
If so, I think you are the only one with that chip in a D600 since the R9800 isn't offered in
the D600. How did you pull that one off??.................TD
PleiadesKOA
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October 17th, 2004 18:00
mkizer
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October 18th, 2004 14:00
impsondm
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October 18th, 2004 21:00
I have a 600 with the mobility 128 that I am trying to figure out how to upgrade to a better card.
mkizer
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October 18th, 2004 22:00
My laptop came with this card.
In other news, I was able to get most things to display correctly by either lowering the color depth or the resolution (also if I turned off hardware acceleration in display properties - 2nd to the last notch on the left - but that disabled the ATI HydraVision stuff).
The problem disappeared running at 2800 x 1050 @ 8 BPP, but that was a bit too low of a color depth for me, so I found that lowering the resolution to 2048 x 768 @ 32 BPP seems to work fine. Although, I wish I still had the extra screen real estate.
mkizer
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October 19th, 2004 20:00
More info...
Well, I wasn't too happy with the decreased resolution of 2048 x 768, so I switched it back to 2800 x 1050 (just recognizing that I'll have a few apps with redraw issues. Some of these are IE 6.0 (bold fonts appear inivisble only on the CRT screen, but not when IE is on the laptop side of the desktop), MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint 2000 (various pieces of text appear invisible), Visual Sudio 6 (VB IDE contents of drop down menus in the code designer turn to blanks when cursor scrolls up and down, but only on the CRT screen, not the laptop side of the desktop). Most other apps seem to work fine including Firefox.
Another interesting note... I've found that if I have my desktop setup as expanded 2800 X 1050 and leave the ATI settings alone, I can cycle through laptop screen only (1400 x 1050), CRT screen only (1400 X 1050) and both/expanded (2800 x 1050) by simply using the laptop's Fn + F8 key combination. Cool. So now if I need to use a problem app, I can just flip my setup into single display mode, but I sure hope that Dell comes up with a fix for the ATI drivers in the future...
TDunn
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October 20th, 2004 15:00
If so, I think you are the only one with that chip in a D600 since the R9800 isn't offered in
the D600. How did you pull that one off??.................TD
mkizer
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October 20th, 2004 15:00
Oops, you are correct... it is a Radeon 9000 not a 9800...