On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 07:54, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> 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.
Hmm. Hui Yu might be interested in this as well.
> > > > > 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.
So the virtual resolution was 1280x1024, the physical resolution of the
internal panel was autodetected.
> > > 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 :/
FWIW, with
Screen "LCD"
Screen "CRT" RightOf "LCD"
in the layout section, I can move the cursor to the CRT on the right
border of the LCD and to the LCD on the left border of the CRT.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
