On 3/21/06, Chris Ruprecht chris@ruprecht.org wrote:
Hi all,
I had the dual head stuff working great in FC4 on my ThinkPad.
After the
FC5 upgrade last night, the second screen no longer gets a signal
when X
starts.
I tried to edit the xorg.conf file to no avail - the second screen
stays
dark. I ran the display configuration to span the desktop over two screens and it seems to place new windows on the second screen, but the screen still stays dark.
I tried to find any info on this but came up empty.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks, Chris
what chipset are you using? I haven't been able to have a dual display at all...
Problems with all linux distros with radeon dual head with xorg 6.9/7.0. Not sure of other gfx boards. Advice on xorg list is to try nightly DRI and radeon binary snapshots. See, for example:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d2...
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:58:45 -0500 "Clyde E. Kunkel" clydekunkel7734@cox.net wrote:
On 3/21/06, Chris Ruprecht chris@ruprecht.org wrote:
Hi all,
I had the dual head stuff working great in FC4 on my ThinkPad.
After the
FC5 upgrade last night, the second screen no longer gets a signal
when X
starts.
I tried to edit the xorg.conf file to no avail - the second screen
stays
dark. I ran the display configuration to span the desktop over two screens and it seems to place new windows on the second screen, but the screen still stays dark.
I tried to find any info on this but came up empty.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks, Chris
what chipset are you using? I haven't been able to have a dual display at all...
Problems with all linux distros with radeon dual head with xorg 6.9/7.0. Not sure of other gfx boards. Advice on xorg list is to try nightly DRI and radeon binary snapshots. See, for example:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d2...
I have two CRTs working in Xinerama setup but not as 2 separate heads with the default radeon driver. Does any one know what the xorg.conf should look like with the default radeon driver?
The above link requires additional work due to the wonderful file layout changes in fedora. They did this to KDE and now X11. Does anyone know of an xorg project for fedora which either undoes the wonderful changes or add build changes for fedora file layout? Yet another unneeded project! Yes, I know I can recompile and install x11 as shipped but then there are the rpm dependencies.
I have a Thinkpad T30 which has a Radeon Mobility M7. When I was using FC4, my dual-head setup worked very well. With FC5, I have the same symptoms as described below.
Is this still the best advice to get dual-head working again? How successful has this been for people experiencing this issue?
If anyone does have this working, I'd love to hear how you did it. Any working xorg.conf files gladly accepted.
Thanks.
John
----- Original Message ---- From: Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7734@cox.net To: For users of Fedora Core releases fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:58:45 AM Subject: Re: FC5: Dual head - second screen not working in X
On 3/21/06, Chris Ruprecht chris@ruprecht.org wrote:
Hi all,
I had the dual head stuff working great in FC4 on my ThinkPad.
After the
FC5 upgrade last night, the second screen no longer gets a signal
when X
starts.
I tried to edit the xorg.conf file to no avail - the second screen
stays
dark. I ran the display configuration to span the desktop over two screens and it seems to place new windows on the second screen, but the screen still stays dark.
I tried to find any info on this but came up empty.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks, Chris
what chipset are you using? I haven't been able to have a dual display at all...
Problems with all linux distros with radeon dual head with xorg 6.9/7.0. Not sure of other gfx boards. Advice on xorg list is to try nightly DRI and radeon binary snapshots. See, for example:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d2...
Good news. I installed:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/i3...
removed my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and ran
system-config-display --reconfig
and I was up and running again. The T30 built-in LCD does 1024x768 natively, but the xorg.conf file it wrote only supported 800x600, but that's an easy thing to fix by hand.
Note that I haven't tried to tweak the AGP speed or turn on acceleration or anything like that, yet.
Following the advice described below didn't work for me at all.
John
--- cromworshipper-fedorastuff@yahoo.com wrote:
I have a Thinkpad T30 which has a Radeon Mobility M7. When I was using FC4, my dual-head setup worked very well. With FC5, I have the same symptoms as described below.
Is this still the best advice to get dual-head working again? How successful has this been for people experiencing this issue?
If anyone does have this working, I'd love to hear how you did it. Any working xorg.conf files gladly accepted.
Thanks.
John
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http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d2...
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# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Multihead layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" RightOf "Screen1" Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore" Option "Xinerama" "on" Option "Clone" "off" EndSection
Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, a font server independent of the X server is # used to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection
Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "synaptics" Load "dri" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor 1024x768" DisplaySize 340 270 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0 Option "dpms" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x1024" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync 31.5 - 67.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0 Option "dpms" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard1" Driver "radeon" VendorName "Videocard Vendor" BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Videocard1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection
Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection
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