Re: External monitor on Acer TM 620

[Koen Vermeer <k.a.vermeer@tnw.tudelft.nl>]

On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 09:01 +0100, Martin Vlk wrote:
> (II) I810(0): Currently active displays on Pipe A:
> (II) I810(0):  LFP (local flat panel)
> (II) I810(0): Lowest common panel size for pipe A is 1024 x 768
> (II) I810(0): No active displays on Pipe B.

You'll either have to put the LFP and the external CRT on the same pipe,
or get both of them enabled. For my 855GME chipset, I have the following
lines in xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Generic Video Card S0"
        Driver          "i810"
        BusID           "PCI:0:2:0"
        VideoRam        66000
        Option          "DevicePresence"        "true"
        Option          "MonitorLayout"         "CRT,LFP"
        Option          "Clone"                 "true"
        Option          "VBERestore"            "true"
        Option          "ForceBIOS" "1920x1440=1400x1050"
EndSection

This way, I have pipe A and B both enabled (one connected to the LFP,
the other to the external CRT) and I set them up as clones (so they both
display the same). I don't know all the details of this, but this works
for me. Also, I don't know the difference between this setup and having
a line 'Option "MonitorLayout" "None,LFP+CRT"' or something like that.

Koen