Re: How to make work dual monitors with Debian etch on an IBM x60s ThinkPad?
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:27:29 +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
> On 2007-01-31, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 17:09:30 +0000, Tyler wrote:
> >> I've been wanting to set up my R60 so that I can use my desktop monitor
> >> for a while. However, reading this thread and googling around, checking
> >> the thinkwiki, i'm not getting it.
> ....
> >>
> >> Can someone point me in the right direction? I'm mainly interested in
> >> having the same display on both screens, like for presentations or using
> >> my desktop monitor as the only monitor. Having different displays would
> >> be nice, but not so important.
> >
> > Please post the output of the following three commands:
> >
> > lspci | egrep -i 'vga|display|graphic'
> > awk '/Section "Device|Screen|ServerLayout"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > (Run the "egrep ..." command right after you start up xorg.)
> >
>
> tyler@blackbart:~$ lspci | egrep -i 'vga|display|graphic'
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
> 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML
> Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
[ snip: normal-looking excerpts from xorg.conf for a single display ]
> <...restarted X...>
>
> tyler@blackbart:~$ egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ snip: font path errors; you can remove these obsolete entries from
your xorg.conf.]
> (WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
That looks like the driver expects a second "Device" section for the
0:2:1 PCI ID. This is very different from the Intel chipsets which I
know, so I might not be able to help you much.
> (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
> (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
> (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
> (WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f05 failed.
> (WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23
[ snip: similar AIGLX warnings ]
I think the other warnings are not directly related to the dual head
issue. I just made some more suggestions to another poster in this
thread
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/02/msg00124.html
but I am afraid that I have reached the end of my knowledge.
--
Regards,
Florian
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