VGA out: it worked, not it does not

[Embrik Kaslegard]

Dotan Cohen skreiv:
> On a Dell Inspiron 6400 with an ATI x1400 video card (I am using the
> proprietary drivers) and Kubuntu 8.04 (KDE 3.5.10) the VGA output was
> working fine until a reboot today. I did update the system via apt-get
> yesterday, so that may have affected something. This is my xorg.conf
> file (minus comments at the top):
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>       Driver          "kbd"
>       Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
>       Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
>       Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>       Driver          "mouse"
>       Option          "CorePointer"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
>       Driver          "synaptics"
>       Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>       Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
>       Option          "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
>       Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>       Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
>       Driver          "fglrx"
>       Option          "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>       Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
>       Option          "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>       Identifier      "Default Screen"
>       Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
>       Device          "Configured Video Device"
>       Defaultdepth    24
>       Option          "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>       Identifier      "Default Layout"
>  screen "Default Screen"
>       Inputdevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"
> EndSection
> Section "Module"
>       Load            "glx"
> EndSection
>
>
>
>
> The file is completely stock with the exception of Option
> "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP" which I added to enable VGA-out when I first
> got the external monitor. Until today it had successfully output
> 1680x1050 (which is the native resolution of both the laptop's screen
> and the external monitor) but now I am getting 1680x1050 on the
> laptop's screen, yet 1440x900 at the VGA-out (both at the same time).
> The VGA-out screen pans with the mouse to account for the differences
> in resolution (not the entire desktop is visible at any given moment).
>
> Dotan Cohen
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I would have tried this command. You find it at the top of xorg.conf as 
a suggestion if anything goes wrong.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg


Embrik