[ltp] External screen with free drivers

Konstantin Filtschew linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:39:24 +0200


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hi,

I've used the config on this list and modified it for myself:

This is the setup with 2 different desktops.

If you enable xinerama, you will have one long desktop.
It was not a problem to use it with the opensource radeon driver, not
the r300 as you see!



#Dual headed XF86Config for T40-257551U MDK10 X4.3
#Modified from Diego Zamboni
#Section "ServerLayout"
#        Identifier     "Default Layout"=20
#       Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
#       InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
#       InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#       InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
#EndSection

#Section "ServerLayout"
#        Identifier     "Singlehead"=20
#       Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
#        Screen         "Screen0"
#        Screen         "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
#       InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
#       InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#       InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
#EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Multihead"
#       Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        Screen         "Screen0"
	Screen         "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
#        Option         "Xinerama" "true"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated
together)
    # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server
independent of
    # the X server to render fonts.
    #FontPath "unix/:-1"

    	FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
#       Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "PS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
        Identifier  "DevInputMice"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Unprobed Monitor"
#       HorizSync    31.5 - 48.5
#       VertRefresh  40.0 - 70.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor1"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Unprobed Monitor"
#       HorizSync    31.5 - 67.0
#       VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
        Option      "dpms"
#        Modeline     "1280x1024" 135.00 1280 1308 1412 1676 1024 1027
1030 1056
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Radeon Mobility M7"
#       VideoRam    32768
        Screen      0
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard1"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "ATI Radeon Mobility M7"
#       VideoRam    32768
        Screen      1
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
#       This is the LCD display =20
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
#       This is an external monitor running 1280x1024=20
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device     "Videocard1"
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024"  "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
       Group        0
       Mode         0666
EndSection


Greetz


Konstantin Filtschew




On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:28 +0200, Paul RIVIER wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> my laptop is a T42 / ATI 9600 M10 / xorg 6.8.2
> I want to use an external display (for a beamer presentation for exemple)=
 :
> - in "replicator" mode (diplay same thing on both diplays)
> - with separated resolutions (native 1400*1050 for my laptop LCD,=20
> default resolution for the external screen)
> - using the free ati / radeon driver.
>=20
> Did you manage to do that, and could you help me please :)
> Thank you
>=20
> Paul
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