[ltp] Dual monitor setup on T42p, anyone? (partially solved)

[Yury Prilutsky]

For what it's worth, in continuation of my previous quest...
I have installed ATI's fglrx driver and got two monitors working LCD and CRT 
(no luck with the DVI still).

The problem I encountered was that when I configured it for one bid desktop 
(like what I had before with Xinerama) I got the machine hang a couple of 
times in the first hour. The machine was actually alive, the picture on the 
screen was frozen and the mouse and the keyboard were dead. I could ssh into 
it and there was no X running!
Anyway I tried another setup with two separate desktop and so far it's been 
running OK for the whole day. It's not really what I would want ideally but 
much better than a single screen ;-)

Yury 

On Sunday 26 September 2004 11:21 pm, Yury Prilutsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> has anybody successfully configured T42p for a dual-head setup? I've had it
> running (with Xinerama) nicely on a T40p but can't get anywhere with a new
> T42p.  The best I can get is a copy image on the external monitor (Xorg
> still says the second monitor is missing). Fn-F7 works as expected in the
> console mode (pre-X). If I startx while the console is only shown on the
> laptop screen the (X) image on the external monitor is blurry. If I have
> the console on both screens when starting X, the image on both screens is
> OK.
>
> Here's my setup:
>
> T42p: 2373KXU, Pentium M 2.0GHz 755,  15 UXGA(1600x1200) LCD,
> 128MB ATI FireGL T2,
>
> External monitor Dell 2001FP (1600x1200) on the VGA connector (tried the
> DVI as well, but I couldn't make this setup to work on the T40p either).
>
> Slackware-current, Xorg 6.8.1 from the Slackware packages and xorg radeon
> driver.
> Kernel 2.8.1 from kernel.org patched with swsusp2 and Win4lin.
> Using APM, not ACPI  (not sure if it's relevant).
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