On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 21:35, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 19:41, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > [...] > > As promised I checked all the stuff today on an external DFP... and no > > it does not work... the DFP got detected but was not displaying > > anything... But when I used > > > > Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS" > > > > then it displayed the 1280x854 (although it should have been 1280x1024 > > -> ugly stretching on the DFP). forcing 1280x1024 makes it work, but the > > internal DFP flicker (and I got scared of destroying something). > > Well, this basically tells the driver to treat the internal panel like > the external DFP. :) Does > > Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,TMDS" > > work better? Your description sounds like the driver autodetected this > though.
No, I already tried this. It gives no output on the external DFP. Infact I tried "TMDS,LVDS" "LVDS,TMDS" and "TMDS" while only the last gave some output. > > > > With attached monitor the resolution of the external monitor is choosen, > > > > which is why I felt like I need the Mode option... Maybe infact I don't. > > > > > > You may indeed need to limit the virtual resolution, and your method > > > would have > > > worked if it wasn't for the bug. > > > > But the resolution got limited as I was using DDC... so I really had > > 1280x854 as the true resolution on a 1280x1024 desktop... > > Err, if you didn't miss the 'virtual' above, I don't understand what you > mean. :) I think the virtual 1280 854 got autodetected, at least I could simply scroll on the internal DFP while on the external CRT I had 1280x1024. > > Well, I really tried it out. I started gnome2 and had the panel and > > background image on both screens. Nautilus/appletts etc were only on > > :0.0 ... opening a window on :0.1 and starting a window manager there > > made me feel quite comfortable with using the second head. > > > > However I first have the mouse on :0.0 when I move it too far right/down > > it is gone and now on :0.1 ... but there I had no chance to move it back > > to :0.0 :-/ > > You couldn't move it back? Weird. Yes unfortunately not :/ > > > > It is a pity that XFree86 is not yet capable of adding displays > > > > dynamically like osx can... that would indeed "rock". > > > > > > True. The combination of http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276 and > > > xrandr might be interesting. > > > > Indeed that could already be the first really usable workaround (comment > > #49) until pseudorama (comment #51 above) is fully supported... > > > > I don't know the randr extensions, but are these already supported, if > > so then it is really worth trying out the above patches. > > Yes, RandR (the resize part, to be exact) is supported as of 4.3. I tried resizeing using RandR - it works :-) Unfortunately I currently have no time to try out the above patch... Soeren.
