On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 23:10, Josef Spillner wrote: > Thanks to some of the hints, I got a mirror setup (both CRT + LCD) to work > properly on an iBook. > I'll give a presentation on Wednesday so that's pretty cool. > > Here's the way to go: > - startup normally > * booting with closed lid not required (1) > * booting into OSX first not required > - startup XFree86 without UseFBDev (2) > * using Option "Monitor" "CRT"
I'm not aware of such an option, does it actually have an effect? > * using MonitorLayout ... not required > - now, the CRT displays the desktop, and the LCD does but improperly (3) I guess the radeon driver would have to be fixed the same way as radeonfb for this to work. > - shutting down XFree86, restarting with UseFBDev > - voilà, doing something productive (4) Well, it's probably coincidence that the second head still works from the former run. :) > (5) A bit unrelated, but still interesting: When calling startx & (forking > into the background) from within a shell script, I'm told: > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > I can start X this way from the bash directly, or from a script without > forking, but not a combination of the two. Probably you have set up xserver-common to only allow console users to start the X server, and the process doesn't have a console tty as controlling tty when forking? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
