[ltp] T41 dual monitor FC2

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:44:06 -0500, nate <nrs27@cornell.edu> wrote:
> I've had some success in FC2 getting dual monitor to work. I enabled
> dual head in the Display settings window. That gave me my lcd at the
> proper size, and my 17" crt monitor at 800x600 to the right of my
> laptop. I needed that switched, which (though irrelevant) is just drag
> in windows. However, I did modify the xorg.conf to say "leftof" instead
> of "rightof" and I've been somewhat happier. But 800x600 makes me feel
> trapped, so I'm hoping to fix the resolution on the crt. I read in the
> man page for xorg.conf that doing ctrl-alt-(numpad_-) will cycle through
> all the settings that are possible in the xorg.conf. However, I am a bit
> confused because what happens is my crt will turn off, and my lcd
> monitor decreases in resolution. That means that the line
> 
>  >Screen      1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
> 
> tells me Screen1 is my crt, and Screen0 is lcd. But down lower xorg.conf
> says:
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "Screen0"
>     Device     "Videocard0"
>     Monitor    "Monitor0"
>     DefaultDepth     16
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Viewport   0 0
>         Depth     16
>         Modes    "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864"
> "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "Screen1"
>     Device     "Videocard1"
>     Monitor    "Monitor1"
>     DefaultDepth     16
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Viewport   0 0
>         Depth     16
>         Modes    "1400x1050"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Which means my crt should be at 1400x1050? It's at 800x600... (erm, I
> checked, but I forgot how, but it's obviously smaller than my lcd)
> Should I just slap on "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
> "800x600" "640x480" to the Modes for Screen1 and hope for the best? What
> am I missing here? The entire xorg.conf is posted below for reference.
> Thanks,
> Nate

can you post your xorg log? 

Alex