[ltp] T30 with an external Display
Thomas J. Valerio
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:05:02 -0500
Use xvidtune -next to cycle through your different resolutions
Thomas Valerio
Gregor Rojec-Goldmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a T30 with Radeon Mobility M7 LW (Radeon 7500) and 1400x1050 with
> XFree 4.2.1 and Debian testing.
>
> I would like to connect an external display with different resolution
> than the builtin LCD to the running X server.
>
> I changed the resolution in the X configuration file and it works. I
> start the X server with different config files for different settings.
> But there are two problems:
>
> 1. There is no mirroring. I can switch to the external or internal
> display, but can't have the picture on both at the same time, which is
> annoying at presentations.
>
> 2. When I shut down the X server after connecting and disconnecting an
> external display the video get corrupted and I have to reboot.
>
> It would also be great if I could use Ctrl+Alt+NumPad+- to switch the
> resolution of the running X server, but I couldn't get it to work
> either. The manpage says that it should be used with a boolean (Option
> "DontZoom" "boolean"), but the xserver will not accept a boolean value
> on this option.
>
> Any experience with this?
>
> Best regards,
> Gregor
>
> p.s.
>
> My XF86Config-4 with 1024x756 without 1400x1050:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Section "Files"
> FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
> # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "GLcore"
> Load "bitmap"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "ddc"
> Load "dri"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "glx"
> Load "int10"
> Load "pex5"
> Load "record"
> Load "speedo"
> Load "type1"
> Load "vbe"
> Load "xie"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "keyboard"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
> Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Generic Video Card"
> Driver "radeon"
> VideoRam 16384
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Generic Monitor"
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "Generic Video Card"
> Monitor "Generic Monitor"
> DefaultDepth 24
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768"
> EndSubSection
> #
> SubSection "Display"
> #
> Depth 32
> #
> Modes "1400x1050"
> #
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
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