Re: radeon driver updates for mac laptops

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:40 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> 
> I own a PowerBook G4 

Titanium or aluminium? What panel size?

> and I do not succeed in using the 2nd monitor after 
> using these steps (I am not an Xorg specialist):
> 
> 1. Add Option ... in xorg.conf

... what?

> 2. Restart computer and enter X
> 
> 3. snoopy:~$ xrandr -q
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 854, maximum 1280 x 1280
> LVDS connected 1280x854+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 
> 0mm x 0mm
>     1280x854       60.0*+
>     1280x800       60.0
>     1280x768       60.0
>     1024x768       60.0
>     800x600        60.3
>     640x480        59.9
> VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

If you specify

	Option	"MacModel" "powerbook"

or "powerbook-duallink", the above should say DVI-0 instead of VGA-0.


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