[ltp] T41 - Dualview trouble

[Paul Kaplan]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:45, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:11:05PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:06:03PM -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:23, T.Kolb wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:57, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:35:31PM +0100, T.Kolb wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It seems that xorg-6.9.0 and 7.0.0 are  not completely the same.
> > > > In my case the xorg.conf works except of the point that my external
> > > > LCD, which is able to show resolutions up to 1280x1024 shows only the
> > > > same resolution as the internal one (1024x768). Or do you think it
> > > > could have an other cause?
> >
> > Did you use xrandr to switch between modes?  When I log in, I get
> > 1024x768 showing the same picture on both monitors by default.  I then
> > use xrandr -s 0 to get a 2304x1024 desktop, with the internal LCD
> > showing 1024x768, and the external one showing 1280x1024 (separate
> > pictures).
>
> Actually I had a slightly older version of my xorg.conf on the website.
> It had four server layouts defined (named DefaultLayout, MergedFBLayout,
> MergedFB2Layout, XineramaLayout), and the default one was MergedFBLayout
> (1024x768 + 1024x768).  Since I upgraded to X.org 7.0 and could start
> using MergedNonRectangular, I switched to MergedFB2Layout by default
> (1024x768 + 1280x1024).
>
> I've uploaded the most recent xorg.conf to the usual place:
> http://mg.pov.lt/xorg.conf
>
Marius,
This file worked great.  I can now move to xorg 6.9 and once again have a dual 
screen.
One question; Is there an advantage to running MergedFB over Xinerama or vice 
versa to get dual screens?
Thanks again,
Paul