Re: Dual display with Gnome 2.4
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 04:00, Vicente Herranz Pérez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've an Aluminium Powerbook G4 with a 15" display and an ATI Mobility
> Radeon 9600 graphic card. It works properly right now, buy I decided to
> become entangled in the configuration of a second screen as dual
> display. My second screen is a 17" Philips 170B2T with a maximum
> resolution of 1280x1024, while the resolution of the powerbook's screen
> is set to 1280x854. I've tried a XF86Config-4 file based on John Leach's
> one (http://www.johnleach.co.uk/documents/powerpc/), but although the
> powerbook's screen works properly, the second display prefers to show an
> awful lot of lines. After some attempts I've reached to discern
> something that resembles to icons and the cursor but nothing else. I
> suspect that the second display doesn't really work at 1280x1024.
>
> I would appreciate if somebody can help me.
The external screen is a CRT or a TFT display ? If you are trying to
use the second output as DVI (and not with a DVI<->VGA adapter), then
there is a known problem with XFree using the correct digital output
of the ATI chip. Though it's possible to hack around...
Ben.
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