Re: xinerama + radeon mobility 7500 M7 + laptop + external [LCD | SONY multiscan CRT]
hi ya zenaan
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> I've been trying last night, and now this morning since about 7am, and
> having not much luck so far.
thanx for "trying, experimenting, learning and hair pulling" :-)
> I've been reading the XF86Config-4 man page and XFree radeon driver
> page, but I still can't get it working:
ah ... did you try reading some example dual-head config files ??
> Any time I uncomment my second "Screen" entry in my "ServerLayout"
> section, running XFree86 hangs with a Sig11 or some such.
humm ... that bad .. :-0
> My setup:
make sure that each screen can work by itself ..
- X11 on the laptop ( simple/easy .. )
- plug the xternal monitor into a different PC, and see that
its XF86Config file works for it
- now merge the two together :-)
> With the second Screen+Monitor sections, and the extra line in my
> ServerLayout as per:
>
> Screen "Screen 0"
> Screen "Screen 1" RightOf "Screen 0"
>
> I've also tried this (and many other little things):
> Screen 0 "Screen 0"
> Screen 1 "Screen 1" RightOf "Screen 0"
see the examples
http://www.linux-1u.net/X11/Dual/
c ya
alvin
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