Dual head xorg

Marius Gedminas marius at pov.lt
Thu Feb 2 08:54:41 UTC 2006


Hi,

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:39:44PM -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> I'm running a Thinkpad T40 with a Radeon M7 7500 video card.  On xorg up to 
> 6.8.2, I had an xorg.conf file that enabled dual head to create a virtual 
> desktop across the laptop LCD and an external LCD screen.  I tried xorg 6.9 
> with another distro and the external LCD isn't being sent a signal.  (The 
> virtual desktop exists, but, as I said, no signal is sent to the external 
> monitor and thus half of my desktop is inaccessible.)
> 
> I'm wondering whether anyone here has a similar video setup and whether anyone 
> has tried xorg 6.9 or 7.0 and gotten dual head to run successfully.
> If so, please also append your xorg.conf file.

I have a T42 with Radeon M7.  I use dual-head successfully with Xorg 6.8.2.
I haven't tried Xorg 6.9/7.0 yet, but if you can find my xorg.conf file
at http://mg.pov.lt/xorg.conf in case you're interesting.

(Downloading X.org 7.0 from dapper now.)

Marius Gedminas
-- 
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