Re: More external VGA weirdness
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 23:10, Josef Spillner wrote:
> Thanks to some of the hints, I got a mirror setup (both CRT + LCD) to work
> properly on an iBook.
> I'll give a presentation on Wednesday so that's pretty cool.
>
> Here's the way to go:
> - startup normally
> * booting with closed lid not required (1)
> * booting into OSX first not required
> - startup XFree86 without UseFBDev (2)
> * using Option "Monitor" "CRT"
I'm not aware of such an option, does it actually have an effect?
> * using MonitorLayout ... not required
> - now, the CRT displays the desktop, and the LCD does but improperly (3)
I guess the radeon driver would have to be fixed the same way as
radeonfb for this to work.
> - shutting down XFree86, restarting with UseFBDev
> - voilà, doing something productive (4)
Well, it's probably coincidence that the second head still works from
the former run. :)
> (5) A bit unrelated, but still interesting: When calling startx & (forking
> into the background) from within a shell script, I'm told:
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> I can start X this way from the bash directly, or from a script without
> forking, but not a combination of the two.
Probably you have set up xserver-common to only allow console users to
start the X server, and the process doesn't have a console tty as
controlling tty when forking?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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