[ltp] T30 with an external Display

[D. Sen]

If you browse through the July archive of the XPert mailing list 
(http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-July/thread.html), you will 
see a number of posts in response to my query pertaining to the same 
types of issues you are concerned with.

One of the responses by Hy0, sent me his modified XFree driver which 
allows me to have simultaneous External/LCD displays at 1400x1050. He 
hasnt released any source code (not even to the CVS) yet. Your best bet 
is to email him and get his modified drivers.

Good luck.
DS

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
> 

-- 
D. Sen, PhD
http://www.auditorymodels.org/~dsen