[ltp] dual head with xorg-server 1.3

[Alex Deucher]

On 4/24/07, Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:36:32AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 4/24/07, Guillermo Ju=E1rez <guillermo.juarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >Is there any GUI to play with this settings?
> > >What man page are you talking about?
> > >
> >
> > I don't know of a gui, but the xrandr command line tool should do the
> > trick.  The intel driver has a man page 'man intel' or 'man i810'.
> > The driver used to be called i810; it has since been renamed intel.
>
> Unfortunately not everything is that easy.
>
> The man-page is not very informative on dual-head configuration issues an=
d
> the options xrandr provides can't go beyond the configuration in
> xorg.conf...
>
> what I miss with the new driver is the possibility to restore my old
> setting of one display per pipe.
>
> I used to have display :0.0 on the internal lcd screen and display :0.1 o=
n
> the external one. a simple C-prog did the mouse and keyboard switch
> - invoced by a keypress - and all was fine.
>
> now all I could achieve is having the same screen on both or doing some
> silly left-of or above or so with xrandr
>
> I simply don't WANT the two pipes to be treated as one display. switching
> beween them with a mousemove and sending windows back and force would be
> nice, but my solution was good enough for me.
>

Well, that behavior is broken at the moment, so stick with the old driver.

Alex