[ltp] Thinkpads with two external screens?
Alex Deucher
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:57:32 -0400
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Evgeni Golov <sargentd@die-welt.net> wrote:
> > > I was wondering, if it is possible to drive recent Thinkpads (T61p
> > > e.g.) with two external screens (one on the VGA port, one on the DVI of
> > > the dock)? Of course the internal LCD have to be disabled then.
> > > Has anyone tried this? (Or could do so?)
> >
> > Works just fine on radeon based thinkpads.
>
> It doesn't work on my T43 with Radeon X300 running Fedora 8's Xorg 6.8.0.
> I can enable both DVI and VGA using xrandr 1.2, but at any given time
> only one output actually works; the monitor attached to the other
> output reports an invalid refresh rate.
> Starting from LVDS-only:
> - Enable VGA, disable LVDS, enable DVI --> only VGA works
> - Enable DVI, disable LVDS, enable VGA --> only DVI works
> So it behaves as if only the 2nd CRTC is wired to the VGA and DVI ports.
Can you post your log and the output of xrandr? It should work fine.
Alex