[ltp] Thinkpads with two external screens?

[Shem Multinymous]

Hi Alex,

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >  >  I was wondering, if it is possible to drive recent Thinkpads (T61p
>  >  >  >  e.g.) with two external screens (one on the VGA port, one on the DVI of
>  >  >  >  the dock)? Of course the internal LCD have to be disabled then.
>  >  >  >  Has anyone tried this? (Or could do so?)

>  >  It doesn't work on my T43 with Radeon X300 running Fedora 8's Xorg 6.8.0.
>  >  I can enable both DVI and VGA using xrandr 1.2, but at any given time
>  >  only one output actually works; the monitor attached to the other
>  >  output reports an invalid refresh rate.
>  >  Starting from LVDS-only:
>  >  - Enable VGA, disable LVDS, enable DVI --> only VGA works
>  >  - Enable DVI, disable LVDS, enable VGA --> only DVI works
>  >  So it behaves as if only the 2nd CRTC is wired to the VGA and DVI ports.
>
>  Can you post your log and the output of xrandr?  It should work fine.

I can no longer reproduce the problem: DVI+VGA works fine now on this
box, though I'm sure it didn't a few weeks ago. Maybe it was fixed in
an updated Fedora RPM.

  Shem