[ltp] dual head with xorg-server 1.3

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:36:32 -0500


On 4/24/07, Guillermo Ju=E1rez <guillermo.juarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any GUI to play with this settings?
> What man page are you talking about?
>

I don't know of a gui, but the xrandr command line tool should do the
trick.  The intel driver has a man page 'man intel' or 'man i810'.
The driver used to be called i810; it has since been renamed intel.

Alex

>
>
> On 4/24/07, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/24/07, Guillermo Ju=E1rez <guillermo.juarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > After upgrading to xorg-server 1.3 in gentoo, my dual head setup in m=
y
> > > x60s is not working anymore.
> > >
> > > X breaks miserably without any helpful log message.
> > >
> > > Anyone there with a nice dual head config and this version of Xorg?
> > >
> >
> > this is a know regression; "regular" multi-head doesn't work anymore.
> > With server 1.3, you can use xrandr to reconfigure your desktop and
> > outputs on the fly. See the intel man page.
> >
> > Alex
> > --
> > The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> >
>
>
> --
> Guillermo Ju=E1rez
> Research Assistant
> COLLIDE Research Group
> University of Duisburg-Essen
>
> guillermo.juarez@gmail.com
>