[ltp] T41 dual monitor FC2

[nate]

Alex Deucher wrote:

>On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:44:06 -0500, nate <nrs27@cornell.edu> wrote:
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>>I've had some success in FC2 getting dual monitor to work. I enabled
>>dual head in the Display settings window. That gave me my lcd at the
>>proper size, and my 17" crt monitor at 800x600 to the right of my
>>laptop. I needed that switched, which (though irrelevant) is just drag
>>in windows. However, I did modify the xorg.conf to say "leftof" instead
>>of "rightof" and I've been somewhat happier. But 800x600 makes me feel
>>trapped, so I'm hoping to fix the resolution on the crt. I read in the
>>man page for xorg.conf that doing ctrl-alt-(numpad_-) will cycle through
>>all the settings that are possible in the xorg.conf. However, I am a bit
>>confused because what happens is my crt will turn off, and my lcd
>>monitor decreases in resolution. That means that the line
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>> >Screen      1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
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>>tells me Screen1 is my crt, and Screen0 is lcd. But down lower xorg.conf
>>says:
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>>Section "Screen"
>>    Identifier "Screen0"
>>    Device     "Videocard0"
>>    Monitor    "Monitor0"
>>    DefaultDepth     16
>>    SubSection "Display"
>>        Viewport   0 0
>>        Depth     16
>>        Modes    "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864"
>>"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>    EndSubSection
>>EndSection
>>
>>Section "Screen"
>>    Identifier "Screen1"
>>    Device     "Videocard1"
>>    Monitor    "Monitor1"
>>    DefaultDepth     16
>>    SubSection "Display"
>>        Viewport   0 0
>>        Depth     16
>>        Modes    "1400x1050"
>>    EndSubSection
>>EndSection
>>
>>Which means my crt should be at 1400x1050? It's at 800x600... (erm, I
>>checked, but I forgot how, but it's obviously smaller than my lcd)
>>Should I just slap on "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
>>"800x600" "640x480" to the Modes for Screen1 and hope for the best? What
>>am I missing here? The entire xorg.conf is posted below for reference.
>>Thanks,
>>Nate
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>can you post your xorg log? 
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>Alex
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Gladly, I found a log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it is very large (1000 
lines). Is it allright to post it to the list?