Hi,
I would appreciate any pointers of how to configure the laptop to
display on two monitors.
I have ATI Radeon Mobility M300 connected to VGA and DVI monitors (both
monitors are the same )
I am trying to do this under SuSE Professional 9.3, and was able to use
both monitors
on WinXP and same
well your last opetion didn't work. however I can get it to work manually.
if i leave .xinitrc as ...
exec /usr/bin/openbox
...
then only one works. however I open a terminal and `DISPLAY=:0.1
/usr/bin/openbox` to get the other one to pop up.
I guess I just need to figure out how to set
I've finally gotten my dual card, dual monitor display to work. The
trouble I'm having now is that I can't get openbox to start for the
2nd screen.
my ~/.xinitrc was like this...
exec /usr/bin/openbox
exec /usr/bin/openbox
... and I've tried all of the below without success
exec
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:54:11PM -0500, Tony VanScoy wrote:
I've finally gotten my dual card, dual monitor display to work. The
trouble I'm having now is that I can't get openbox to start for the
2nd screen.
my ~/.xinitrc was like this...
exec /usr/bin/openbox
exec /usr/bin/openbox
I'm not sure of the syntax of setting envvironment variable in ~/.xinitrc.
I tried ...
export DISPLAY=:0.0:
exec /usr/bin/openbox
export DISPLAY=:0.1:
exec /usr/bin/openbox
...
exec DISPLAY=:0.0: /usr/bin/openbox
exec DISPLAY=:0.1: /usr/bin/openbox
...
setenv DISPLAY=:0.0:
exec /usr/bin/openbox
Hi Tony, notice a few problems, comments are inline.
--- Tony VanScoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure of the syntax of setting envvironment
variable in ~/.xinitrc.
I tried ...
export DISPLAY=:0.0:
This is incorrect syntax. What you are saying is:
export the variable DISPLAY as
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 08:20, Alex Deucher wrote:
You may also want to
remove the matrox hal module.
OK, did that, but then I got those scrolling lines back ... up one monitor and down the other. Also, X would still lock up. So I reinstalled the latest drivers from Matrox, which is
You may also want to
remove the matrox hal module.
do you mean /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o?
yes, both 16 and 24 bit should work fine.
Alex
--- Larry McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 22:45, Alex Deucher wrote:
remove the ALL the lines that say VideoRam and add
Screen 0
to the first device entry in your config file.
upon first testing, that seems
yes.
--- Larry McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You may also want to
remove the matrox hal module.
do you mean /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_hal_drv.o?
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On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 18:35, Alex Deucher wrote:
send a copy of your xfree86 log (/var/log/XFree86.0.log usually) and
your xfree86 config. Also make sure your config file is setup
correctly. The xfree86 binaries may not work with the matrox setup
tools, so you'll have to use Xfree86
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 14:21, Alex Deucher wrote:
your web prowser is trying to display the binaries as text. right
click on the links and select save link target as. then copy the
files to the appropriate place. make sure to backup your old ones.
Alex
ok, here's what I did. it
remove the ALL the lines that say VideoRam and add
Screen 0
to the first device entry in your config file. You may also want to
remove the matrox hal module.
Alex
--- Larry McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 18:35, Alex Deucher wrote:
send a copy of your xfree86 log
, June 07, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [XFree86] dual monitors ati radeon pci agp Fatal server error
I don't know whether this is relevant but there were a couple of post
mentioning using the 4.2 mga
driver from Matrox rather than the 4.3 I have not the time to go in the
archives to give you
of any help - obviously
prematurely.
- Original Message -
From: Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:44 AM
Subject: [XFree86] dual monitors ati radeon pci agp Fatal server error ...
There was some discussion
I have been attempting to use two monitors with two ATI 7000 video
cards. 1 AGP and 1 PCI.
The hardware works with Windows XP.
I can successfully use one or the other monitor/card but when I try to
use both the x server crashes immediately.
My XFree86Config file works until I add a line like
There was some discussion of this between Marc and Hui just before
4.3.0 was released. I believe the problem had something to do with
int10 and the BIOS on radeons when soft booting them. I think the true
resolution was put off until after 4.3.0 was released. I'm not sure
what the current
actually given up hope of any help - obviously
prematurely.
- Original Message -
From: Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:44 AM
Subject: [XFree86] dual monitors ati radeon pci agp Fatal server error ...
There was some
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