[ltp] External Video on T30

D. Sen linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:59:32 +1000


THanks...but now...I dont have Direct Rendering working....(used to work 
with XFree 4.2, with the radeon.o module from the 2.4.20 kernel)....

Diego Zamboni wrote:
>>Does anyone have the external video
>>working on the t30?
> 
> 
> What finally worked for me to get proper external video on my T30 was to
> enable Xinerama:
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option      "Xinerama" "on"
> EndSection
> 
> Then you have to define two devices, screens and monitors. Here's what I
> have:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "laptop"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1400x1050"
>         HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
>         VertRefresh  59.0 - 75.0
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "external"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "Generic External Monitor 1400x1050"
>         HorizSync    31.5 - 90.0
>         VertRefresh  59.0 - 75.0
>         Option      "CrtScreen"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "ati"
>         VendorName  "ATI"
>         BoardName   "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500"
>         Option      "AGPMode" "1"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard1"
>         Driver      "ati"
>         VendorName  "ATI"
>         BoardName   "ATI Radeon Mobility 7500"
>         Option      "AGPMode" "1"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>         Screen      1
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "laptop"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "laptop"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "external"
>         Device     "Videocard1"
>         Monitor    "external"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1400x1050" "1600x1280" "1280x1024" "1024x768" 
>         EndSubSection
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> In my setup, I have two screens side by side:
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "Default Layout"
>         Screen         "laptop" 0 0
>         Screen         "external" RightOf "laptop"
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>         InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
> EndSection
> 
> but I believe there is also a way to have one display be cloned on the
> other, if that's what you want. See the config file here (I haven't
> tested it):
> http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~gregorrg/t30/XF86Config-4.xin.mirr.10
> 
> 

-- 
D. Sen,
http://www.auditorymodels.org/~dsen