On 9/3/07, Matthieu Herrb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/2/07, Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I guess I'm doing some strange things here, and I hope that they are not > > going > > to come back to bite me. :-) > > > > Goal: To have an X Windows Two Monitor, One Video Card system running > > Hardware: Macbook Pro 2.16ghz Intel Core Duo w/ ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 > > > > So far, the only way I have been able to get my system to work has been to > > run > > `X -configure' and then use the generated x.org configuration file in > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This has some problems. > > > > 1) Resolution is an ugly 1400x1050 (should be 1680x1050). > > 2) Display driver is Vesa > > 3) My external LCD (Apple HD Display) monitor is not recognized. > > > > This is becoming a FAQ, but apparently things have not been said > loudly enough yet to be found by the search engines while you were > doing your homework. > > the ATI X1600 chipset is not supported by the radeon driver in X.Org, > only by the vesa driver for now. A new driver (avivo) is being > developped, and hopefully will be supported on OpenBSD in the future, > but not yet. > > The vesa driver only supports mode known by the BIOS. It does not use > modlines you may add to your xorg.conf. So if the Xorg.0.log file > shows that a 1680x1050 more is present in your bios, you should be > able to use it... > > If the mode that matches your monitor's native resolution is not > present in the BIOS, you're on you own. Tools like i915resolution > *may* work to "patch" the bios to replace one useless mode by the mode > you're looking for. > Hmm and I forgot:
the vesa driver doesn't support multi-head on one card with dual outputs. (It does support multi-head with 2 physical cards, but this doesn't count in the laptop case).
