Jason Martens wrote:
Andreas Tille wrote: |> My Toshiba BIOS gives me the option to boot with the VGA-Out and LCD |> being mirror. Which works partially, the kernel boot messages are |> displaying on both screens fine. |> |> But when X starts, the LCD screen turns off, VGA-Out is fine. I |> believe that this is an issue with my XF86Config-4, is there |> additional hacking that needs to be done ? Yes, this is probably a XF86Config issue. What video card do you use? The multi-head options are different with each video card. You can try doing a "man drivername" where drivername is the name of the X11 driver you are using. For me, man radeon shows me the dual head options that I needed to manually add to the X config file.
My bad, it's actually a nvidia chipset. I managed to get in touch with a fellow Toshiba owner, Ulrich Hertlein[1], who also had a nvidia chipset. He spewed out his xorg.conf and I stole the following lines which now does the trick.
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP,CRT"
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "clone"
Option "MetaModes" "1024x768,1024x768"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31.5-90"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
The secrect I believe is the BIOS option which is lightly documented in
any Linux Laptop howto/faq, which is something that Ulrich discovered.
[1] http://www.sandbox.de/toshiba/ -sime