I've just installed antiX 8.5 on my laptop, and I can't figure out how to switch the display to an external Crt monitor. At boot up everything shows up on both the laptop monitor and the external one, but once the display manager starts, the external monitor goes idle. I need to be able to use the external display because the laptop's display is just about finished. The functions keys on the laptop don't seem to respond, at least the monitor switch doesn't. How do I switch the signal to the external monitor? The laptop's a Compaq Evo N1015v, if that's any clue.
Thank you
Chuck
topic title: Laptop and external monitor
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bentoncPosts: 9
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rokytnjiPosts: 4,164
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#2
I am not familiar with Compaq bios anymore. On my Amrel Laptop I have a setting in Bios for setting the monitor for Laptop mode or external monitor if that is any help.
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bentoncPosts: 9
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#3
Thanks for the suggestion, rokytnji, but I can't find anything in the bios that would help with the monitor.
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rokytnjiPosts: 4,164
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#4
There is no Hotkey on the keyboard either?
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dolphin_oraclePosts: 2,238
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#5
If you can, check"Set Screen Resolution" under the Hardware Tab in the Control Center. The button will actually start grandr, which should detect both monitors. If it does, check to see if your external is disabled here for some reason (there is a check box). If it is, uncheck the box and hit apply. You may need to log out and log back in for the change to actually happen. I just tried this on my laptop. Both of my displays were active. I actually disabled one (which was immediate), but when I re-enabled it, I had to log out and log back in.
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bentoncPosts: 9
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#6
rokytjni:
There's a screen switch key combination (function + F5), but it doesn't seem to do anything. Adjusting the laptop's display brightness using function + F1/F2 works though.
dolphin oracle and all:
I managed to switch the CRT on by playing with the Set Screen Resolution tool, but there're some issues left.
I can see two displays, VGA-0 and LVDS. Both were supposed to be on from the start and switching VGA-0 off and back on again (and logging off and on again in between) didn't help. It looks like the supported display modes don't show right for the external monitor, because I can't see any modes above 70 Hz. I tried running VGA-0's resolution down to 640x480 to see if that'd help. It didn't when I first clicked apply, but then, when I tried dragging VGA-0 to the left of LVDS in the layout tab, suddenly I got a picture on the external monitor. It's definitely not 640x480, more like 1280x1024, but with a lot of flicker. I tried it several times, and up to 800x600 seems to give a picture once I do the switch layout thing. The layout's set to Clone, and that setting's actually grayed out, so selecting between Clone and Extend is not possible. I'm on a different computer now, but if I recall right, the layout setting reverts back to Clone after I restart the Set Screen Resolution tool, meaning both displays are in the center placeholder again, but I'll still have that external monitor turned on at that point.
Thank you
Chuck
There's a screen switch key combination (function + F5), but it doesn't seem to do anything. Adjusting the laptop's display brightness using function + F1/F2 works though.
dolphin oracle and all:
I managed to switch the CRT on by playing with the Set Screen Resolution tool, but there're some issues left.
I can see two displays, VGA-0 and LVDS. Both were supposed to be on from the start and switching VGA-0 off and back on again (and logging off and on again in between) didn't help. It looks like the supported display modes don't show right for the external monitor, because I can't see any modes above 70 Hz. I tried running VGA-0's resolution down to 640x480 to see if that'd help. It didn't when I first clicked apply, but then, when I tried dragging VGA-0 to the left of LVDS in the layout tab, suddenly I got a picture on the external monitor. It's definitely not 640x480, more like 1280x1024, but with a lot of flicker. I tried it several times, and up to 800x600 seems to give a picture once I do the switch layout thing. The layout's set to Clone, and that setting's actually grayed out, so selecting between Clone and Extend is not possible. I'm on a different computer now, but if I recall right, the layout setting reverts back to Clone after I restart the Set Screen Resolution tool, meaning both displays are in the center placeholder again, but I'll still have that external monitor turned on at that point.
Thank you
Chuck
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dolphin_oraclePosts: 2,238
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#7
Glad its kind of working anyway. This wiki may be of help. Its for the command line tool to xrandr. There is a section called"Doing useful things..." that shows sample commands you may find useful in your situation, since moving the screens in your layout improved your situation.
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bentoncPosts: 9
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#8
This starts to get over my head, but I'll look and see what I can do with xrandr. Thank you. Chuck
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bentoncPosts: 9
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#9
I couldn't get the display to work with xrandr. It may be that the system's trying to use a display mode not supported by the external monitor, but I couldn't figure out what to do about it. From my reading of it, the reason resolution settings above 800x600 don't work seems to be the size of the virtual display, but, I couldn't figure out an xorg config that would allow for a bigger virtual display. (Adding the line"Virtual 2048 2048" in xorg.conf in a display subsection after Depth and Modes shut both displays. And as said above, a both 640x480 and 800x600 give an actual display resolution of 1024x768 or 1280x1024.) I also tried setting DPMS to false, but that didn't help.
I tried running sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, which recognizes the brand and model of the monitor correctly, but otherwise fails to bring any picture on either monitor. Should I post that xorg.conf here?
Running the system in vesa mode does work. That way grandr recognizes only one display and there's no way to set the refresh rate.
Thank you
Chuck
I tried running sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, which recognizes the brand and model of the monitor correctly, but otherwise fails to bring any picture on either monitor. Should I post that xorg.conf here?
Running the system in vesa mode does work. That way grandr recognizes only one display and there's no way to set the refresh rate.
Thank you
Chuck
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Dave - Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#10
You could try booting the computer with the seccond moniter plugged in this I have found to work with a projector as well as showing the display on my TV. Also have been working on a project to have multiple seat computer, were multiple displays and keyboard setups can be used by several people on one computer. This is done by modifying the xorg.conf file, it may help you in this situation. I will type out the instructions for the multiple display and post it here, it may help.
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DavePosts: 1,062
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#11
first in terminal as root type ( lspci | grep VGA ) and record the output
then copy the xorg.conf file from /etc/X11/xorg.conf to the home directory
( cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf -t /home/U S E R/ )
replace U S E R with your username
then in terminal as root type ( geany /etc/X11/xorg.conf )
in this file there will be a section that looks something like this
copy it and change the it to be something like this
Changing the identifiers to moniter1, card1, screen1, as well as changing the resolutions and refresh rates to match the external moniter
Here is the key to the whole configuration change the BusID from #BusID"PCI:1:0:0" to the output of ( lspci |grep VGA ) the BusID is the first part of the output.
on my laptop it would change to #BusID"PCI:0:2:0"
save the configuration and reboot with the moniter plugged in and it may show up better.
Like I said above this works for a multiseat system where there are several screens being used off the same computer so this may help you.
PS. __{{emoticon}}__ WRITE THIS DOWN __{{emoticon}}__ If this does not work for you and you are prompted at the command line interface, log in with your normal username and password. then log in as root and type ( rm -f -r /etc/X11/xorg.conf )
this removes the changed file
then type ( cp /home/U S E R/xorg.conf -t /etc/X11/xorg.conf )
again changing the U S E R to your username, this will copy the old file back
reboot by typing ( reboot ) and all will be the same as it was before changes
then copy the xorg.conf file from /etc/X11/xorg.conf to the home directory
( cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf -t /home/U S E R/ )
replace U S E R with your username
then in terminal as root type ( geany /etc/X11/xorg.conf )
in this file there will be a section that looks something like this
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Section"Monitor"
Identifier"Monitor0"
VendorName"unknown"
ModelName"unknown"
Option"DPMS""true"
HorizSync 30-75
VertRefresh 55-70
EndSection
Section"Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver"intel"
BoardName"unknown"
Screen 0
#Option"UseDisplayDevice""dfp"
#Option"MonitorLayout""crt,crt"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
#Option"sw_cursor" # needed for some ati cards
#Option"hw_cursor"
#Option"NoAccel"
#Option"ShowCache"
#Option"ShadowFB"
#Option"UseFBDev"
#Option"Rotate"
Option"UseInternalAGPGART""no"
Option"XAANoOffscreenPixmaps""true"
# savage special options, use with care
#Option"NoUseBios"
#Option"BusType""PCI"
Option"DmaMode""None"
# nvidia special options, use with care
Option"CursorShadow""1"
Option"CursorShadowAlpha""63"
Option"CursorShadowYOffset""2"
Option"CursorShadowXOffset""4"
Option"FlatPanelProperties""Scaling = native"
Option"NoLogo""true"
Option"UseEDID""true"
Option"AddARGBGLXVisuals""true"
Option"RenderAccel""true"
#Option"AllowGLXWithComposite""true"
EndSection
Section"Screen"
Identifier"Screen0"
Device"Card0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection"Display"
Depth 8
Modes"1440x900""1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900""1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900""1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Depth 24
Modes"1440x900""1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1440x900""1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
# Only the official NVIDIA driver supports twinview
# these setting are an example
Option"TwinView""false"
Option"SecondMonitorVendorName""unknown"
Option"SecondMonitorModelName""unknown"
Option"SecondMonitorHorizSync""30-75"
Option"SecondMonitorVertRefresh""55-70"
#Option"MetaModes""1024x768, 1024x768"
Option"TwinViewOrientation""RightOf"
Option"ConnectedMonitor""dfp,dfp"
EndSection
copy it and change the it to be something like this
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Section"Monitor"
Identifier"Monitor1"
VendorName"unknown"
ModelName"unknown"
Option"DPMS""true"
HorizSync 30-75
VertRefresh 55-70
EndSection
Section"Device"
Identifier "Card1"
Driver"intel"
BoardName"unknown"
Screen 1
#Option"UseDisplayDevice""dfp"
#Option"MonitorLayout""crt,crt"
#BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
#Option"sw_cursor" # needed for some ati cards
#Option"hw_cursor"
#Option"NoAccel"
#Option"ShowCache"
#Option"ShadowFB"
#Option"UseFBDev"
#Option"Rotate"
Option"UseInternalAGPGART""no"
Option"XAANoOffscreenPixmaps""true"
# savage special options, use with care
#Option"NoUseBios"
#Option"BusType""PCI"
Option"DmaMode""None"
# nvidia special options, use with care
Option"CursorShadow""1"
Option"CursorShadowAlpha""63"
Option"CursorShadowYOffset""2"
Option"CursorShadowXOffset""4"
Option"FlatPanelProperties""Scaling = native"
Option"NoLogo""true"
Option"UseEDID""true"
Option"AddARGBGLXVisuals""true"
Option"RenderAccel""true"
#Option"AllowGLXWithComposite""true"
EndSection
Section"Screen"
Identifier"Screen1"
Device"Card1"
Monitor"Monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection"Display"
Depth 8
Modes"1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Depth 15
Modes"1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Depth 16
Modes"1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Depth 24
Modes"1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1280x800""1280x768""1024x768""800x600"
EndSubSection
# Only the official NVIDIA driver supports twinview
# these setting are an example
Option"TwinView""false"
Option"SecondMonitorVendorName""unknown"
Option"SecondMonitorModelName""unknown"
Option"SecondMonitorHorizSync""30-75"
Option"SecondMonitorVertRefresh""55-70"
#Option"MetaModes""1024x768, 1024x768"
Option"TwinViewOrientation""RightOf"
Option"ConnectedMonitor""dfp,dfp"
EndSection
Here is the key to the whole configuration change the BusID from #BusID"PCI:1:0:0" to the output of ( lspci |grep VGA ) the BusID is the first part of the output.
on my laptop it would change to #BusID"PCI:0:2:0"
save the configuration and reboot with the moniter plugged in and it may show up better.
Like I said above this works for a multiseat system where there are several screens being used off the same computer so this may help you.
PS. __{{emoticon}}__ WRITE THIS DOWN __{{emoticon}}__ If this does not work for you and you are prompted at the command line interface, log in with your normal username and password. then log in as root and type ( rm -f -r /etc/X11/xorg.conf )
this removes the changed file
then type ( cp /home/U S E R/xorg.conf -t /etc/X11/xorg.conf )
again changing the U S E R to your username, this will copy the old file back
reboot by typing ( reboot ) and all will be the same as it was before changes
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bentoncPosts: 9
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#12
Thanks for trying to help Dave, but it seems the BusID is already set to what it should be, and I'm always booting with the monitor plugged in.
I should correct something I wrote above. I was wrong when I wrote that I don't get any picture on either monitor when I use an xorg.conf that I get after running sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. I do get a picture on the laptop now with that xorg.conf. It could be that the display simply went all black at some point yesterday for being broken enough. That wouldn't be a big surprise since it's been almost unreadably faint for a while now.
So with that xorg config, running xrandr -q seems to list the displays and their supported display modes correctly:
That didn't help turning the monitor on though. Using xrandr, cloning the screens doesn't work, except when I first set VGA-0's resolution low (low enough to fit next to the other screen I guess), then set it left-of the laptop's screen (switches it on), and then clone with same-as. But as said above, the system will forget that setting at next boot, and it's not the right refresh rate and not the resolution it's supposed to be. When I run xrandr -q after cloning the screens, I'll get"VGA-0 connected 640x480+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 352mm x 264mm", but that's clearly false, because the resolution's not 640x480, and the refresh rate is not 85 as it claims.
Any ideas? If not, or if I'm not explaining myself clearly enough, I'd like to hear that too. Is there any chance some other distribution might work, or is it the ATI Radeon Mobility U1 card and back to you-know-what on that other computer? That'd be such a shame. Until this display thing and the need to use the other computer, I've been so care free since switching to antix.
Chuck
I should correct something I wrote above. I was wrong when I wrote that I don't get any picture on either monitor when I use an xorg.conf that I get after running sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. I do get a picture on the laptop now with that xorg.conf. It could be that the display simply went all black at some point yesterday for being broken enough. That wouldn't be a big surprise since it's been almost unreadably faint for a while now.
So with that xorg config, running xrandr -q seems to list the displays and their supported display modes correctly:
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Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1920 x 1920
VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 352mm x 264mm
1024x768 85.0*+ 75.0 70.1 60.0 43.5
1280x1024 85.0 + 85.0 75.0 60.0
1920x1440 60.0
1856x1392 60.0
1792x1344 60.0
1600x1200 75.0 70.0 65.0 60.0
1680x1050 84.9 74.9 69.9 60.0
1600x1024 60.2
1400x1050 85.0 74.8 70.0 60.0
1440x900 59.9
1280x960 85.0 60.0
1360x768 59.8
1152x864 100.0 85.1 85.0 75.0 75.0 70.0 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 85.1 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 75.0 66.7 59.9
720x400 87.8 85.0 70.1
640x400 85.1
640x350 85.1
LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1024x768 60.0*+ 60.0
800x600 60.3 59.9
640x480 59.9 59.4
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)Any ideas? If not, or if I'm not explaining myself clearly enough, I'd like to hear that too. Is there any chance some other distribution might work, or is it the ATI Radeon Mobility U1 card and back to you-know-what on that other computer? That'd be such a shame. Until this display thing and the need to use the other computer, I've been so care free since switching to antix.
Chuck
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DavePosts: 1,062
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#13
I have a few other suggestions / questions,
Questions
#1 Is the screen skew or smaller with the resolution settings that you have? Is the laptop widescreen and the desktop standard dimensions?
#2 Is it possible to turn the laptop screen off in a hot key / using xrandr or the xorg.conf file?
#3 As you already have the output of xrandr could you post the output of xorg.conf?
#4 could you also post the output ( lspci |grep VGA )
Suggestions
#1a If it is possible to turn the laptop screen off, try changing the resolution of the other moniter to a good setting while it is off.
#1b If this works as planned post what you enter for a command and then I or one of the other guys will tell you how to add it to the startup for your window manager.
Please identify what you are using for your window manager, the default iceWM, Fluxbox, or another one that you installed, if you are ready to do this.
Questions
#1 Is the screen skew or smaller with the resolution settings that you have? Is the laptop widescreen and the desktop standard dimensions?
#2 Is it possible to turn the laptop screen off in a hot key / using xrandr or the xorg.conf file?
#3 As you already have the output of xrandr could you post the output of xorg.conf?
#4 could you also post the output ( lspci |grep VGA )
Suggestions
#1a If it is possible to turn the laptop screen off, try changing the resolution of the other moniter to a good setting while it is off.
#1b If this works as planned post what you enter for a command and then I or one of the other guys will tell you how to add it to the startup for your window manager.
Please identify what you are using for your window manager, the default iceWM, Fluxbox, or another one that you installed, if you are ready to do this.
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bentoncPosts: 9
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#14
Sorry for taking so long to reply. I've been extremely busy and only now had the chance to get back to this.
Dave, there's no way to turn the laptop display off with a hotkey. That hotkey has only worked under windows. As for your question #1, the laptop's default resolution is 1024x768, it's not a widescreen or anything unusual. The external monitor's a typical crt from what I can tell, and the display's not skewed or anything.
Below is the current xorg.conf. The output of lspci |grep VGA is reflected in the config (BusID, Vendor and Board names).
Dave, there's no way to turn the laptop display off with a hotkey. That hotkey has only worked under windows. As for your question #1, the laptop's default resolution is 1024x768, it's not a widescreen or anything unusual. The external monitor's a typical crt from what I can tell, and the display's not skewed or anything.
Below is the current xorg.conf. The output of lspci |grep VGA is reflected in the config (BusID, Vendor and Board names).
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Section"ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0""CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0""CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section"Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section"Module"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section"InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section"InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol""auto"
Option "Device""/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping""4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section"Monitor"
#DisplaySize 360 270 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "STN"
ModelName "S/T 97P/96P"
HorizSync 30.0 - 96.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section"Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>:"True"/"False",
### <string>:"String", <freq>:"<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i>
#Option "AGPMode" # <i>
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # <i>
#Option "GARTSize" # <i>
#Option "RingSize" # <i>
#Option "BufferSize" # <i>
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>]
#Option "FBTexPercent" # <i>
#Option "DepthBits" # <i>
#Option "PCIAPERSize" # <i>
#Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
#Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # <i>
#Option "TunerType" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str>
#Option "ScalerWidth" # <i>
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "DynamicClocks" # [<bool>]
#Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>]
#Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "ConnectorTable" # <str>
#Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVDACLoadDetect" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceTVOut" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVStandard" # <str>
#Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # [<bool>]
#Option "Int10" # [<bool>]
#Option "EXAVSync" # [<bool>]
#Option "ATOMTVOut" # [<bool>]
#Option "R4xxATOM" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon Mobility U1"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
Section"Screen"
Identifier"Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24
#Option MonitorLayout"crt, crt"
#
SubSection"Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes"1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection"Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes"1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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DavePosts: 1,062
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#15
Thanks for posting this,
please try this xorg.conf, make sure you have a way to go back if it does not work!
if this does not work, download and install a program called automseat and all of its depends, and change a line in the /usr/bin/automseat file to make the video driver radeon. This should be on line 345 in geany. Looks like
should look like
this will ensure the correct driver on start up. Not sure how well it will work but works well for my multiseat system. It will automatically reconfigure everytime there is a hardware change on startup
Hope this helps somewhat __{{emoticon}}__
please try this xorg.conf, make sure you have a way to go back if it does not work!
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Section"ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0""CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0""CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section"Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section"Module"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section"InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section"InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol""auto"
Option "Device""/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping""4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section"Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section"Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section"Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon Mobility U1"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
Section"Device"
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon Mobility U1"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
Section"Screen"
Identifier"Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24
Modes"1280x1024, 1024x768"
EndSection
Section"Screen"
Identifier"Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24
Modes"1280x1024, 1024x768"
EndSection
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driver="ati"
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driver="radeon"
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