[ltp] Goodbye to Linux on my Thinkpad :-(

[Phil]

What a patronising bunch of claptrap. I've had major problems with this 
too, and I have read everything I can find on the web (including 
ThinkWiki). Some of the info out there is just plain wrong, some is out 
of date (and many sites do not date their postings so you've no idea if 
it's fresh or not), and all of it is specific to a particular hardware.  
I'm an avid Linux user,  I administer a network of various machine types 
and hate Windoze with a passion.

I can boot XP on my Thinkpad, and without reading a single document or 
doing ANY config I can switch between LCD and external (or both), change 
resolution on either screen, move relative screen positions etc etc, and 
not even have to logout and log back in. Hell even my father can do it. 
If Linux has any chance of success it has to get as close to this 
experience as possible. Evolution will either improve the breed or see 
to it that it becomes extinct alongside a whole bunch of other 
technically great but poorly implemented stuff (betamax, OS2, etc).

In contrast with FC6 and the radeon driver I can't do any of this. Most 
of the info posted requires manual edits of xorg.conf - and if you get 
it wrong then it's back to booting in single-user mode to sort out the 
file. Certain configs that work for some Radeon hardware hang the 
machine completely on other hardware. After many days of trying (and a 
clean reinstall of FC6) I still can't get twinhead display on my t40p - 
I can get a display on either LCD or VGA but not both.

If anyone out there has got dual-head working with the same video card 
as my T40p (lspci lists "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility 
FireGL 9000] (rev 02)") then I'd be really pleased to hear from them, 
but smart-arse comments don't help. If you haven't got anything 
intelligent to say then keep quiet.

Phil

PS - yes I am really pissed off with this.


Laurent Gilson wrote:
> Hello
>
>> No, I could not get my 2nd VGA to work. I tried almost everything I 
>> found.
>
> The solution is about 60 lines down in the i810 man page. It is called 
> Option "Clone".
>
> People running Linux have to read the manuels sometimes. Most 
> part-time users will never even bother to launch xman, so they become 
> frustrated and give up (suits me fine, it filters the userbase 
> nicely). Hell, even google is too much, since most questions on this 
> list are answered by thinkwiki => 
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Media_Accelerator_950
>
> cu
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