[ltp] Dual-head non-scrolling viewport

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:21:55 +0100, Andr=E9 Wyrwa <a.wyrwa@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> > > So somebody mentioned the possibility of choosing a different conf fi=
le
> > > at startup. How do you do this? Does this only work if you use startx=
,
> > > instead of having a display manager that starts X automatically at st=
artup?
> > >
> >
> > Usually startx.  I'm not too familiar with the display manager start
> > up scripts.  you may be able to ajdust the X invocation stuff from
> > their configs.  mergedfb will start single head or dualhead depending
> > on whether it detects a monitor on the crt port.
> >
> > Alex
>=20
> See X -help output and look for the -layout option. Compare that to what
> is said in man xorg.conf (man XF86Config) about the DefaultServerLayout
> option.
>=20
> What i'm doing...
> I made up a bootscript framework which i call hardware profiling. It is
> meant to adjust certain configs to the state of certain hardware, mostly
> periferal devices being present or not. It consists of detector scripts,
> configurator scripts and configuration template files which may be
> adjusted by the configurator scripts and copied to the appropriate
> places at boot time. The whole process is initiated by an init scipt.
> There is also a file somewhere in /var which reflects the detected
> hardware status for other scripts which might be run later.
>=20
> With hotplug evolving and the changes in xorg the whole thing will
> hopefully become obsolete. Thanks to the hotplug infrastructure and the
> better trackpoint compatibility on the T41p (compared to T23 where it
> didn't work with the imPS2 protocol), the only thing this infrastructure
> does on my system now is adjust the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file on every
> bootup according to if an external monitor is connected or not.
>=20
> It does this by simply changing the DefaultServerLayout entry. This way
> the gdm display manager will start X with the right configuration.
>=20
> In fact at the moment this doesn't work at all since xorg still doesn't
> support dual head on DVI and crashes when i try to make it use my PCI
> Radeon card for the second head.

you may be able to get it going with my new output handling patch:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D2273
unfortunately, I don't have the hardware to test with.

Alex

>=20
> Andr=E9.
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