Hi,
TwinView is actually your friend, you just need to specify orientation
etc and you can have two seperate displays.
The following configuration is my setup. My setup splits the display,
eg, I have a wide workspace, spanning two monitors.
It's actually easier to get it to do what you want than what I have set
up here, just experiment with the Screen options until you get it right.
The Nvidia monitor tools which should come with your driver are also a
great help in getting started.
Regards,
Alistair Ross
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration
Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
#
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "GeForce FX 5200"
# Driver "nv"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
VideoRam 131072
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
# Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; 1600x1200, 1024x768;
1024x768,NULL; 800x600,NULL; 640x480,NULL;"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; 1024x768,NULL; 800x600,NULL;
640x480,NULL;"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, CRT"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-70"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-120"
Option "NoLogo"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "IIyama Vision Master P400"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 27-96
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Belinea 10 30 20"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-120
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "GeForce FX 5200"
Monitor "IIyama Vision Master P400"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
#Modes "2624x1968" "1600x1200" "1280x960" "1600x1200" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 2"
Device "GeForce FX 5200"
Monitor "Belinea 10 30 20"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
#Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
#Section "Extensions"
# uncomment next line for transparency and other funky stuff
# Option "Composite" "Enable"
#EndSection
Chase wrote:
Hay,
Im having problem running my laptop with the laptop display and a
external monitor. Ive tryed to configure xorg (see attached) but all i can
get is both monitors to display the same thing in the same resolution.
Where as i need to have both monitors showing the same display but with
diffrent resolutions. I dont know what im doing wrong to get this to work.
In the device section of the config file is TwinView options i
commented
out, while they work, i would rather have both displays show the same
information and with the TwinView i couldnt make the laptop the main
display. So all KDE's windows and menus were being displayed on the
external monitor.
I am unsure what information you need, so i have just included the xorg
file, if you need to see any other config files please just ask and ill
send the to you. If anyone can please help me it would be much appreciated.
#/etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
# paths to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Mac 32M/GeForce
440 Go
64M]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# below added for multi-head
# Option "TwinView"
# Option "IgnoreEDID" "on"
# Option "HorizSync" "DFP-0: 28-64; CRT-0: 24-80"
# Option "VertRefresh" "DFP-0: 43-60; CRT-0: 55-75"
# Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1280x800, CRT-0: 1280X1024"
# Option "TwinViewOrientation" "DFP-0 LeftOf CRT-0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-64
VertRefresh 43-60
Modeline "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 83.91 1280 1312 1624 1656 800 816 824 841
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "External Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 23-80
VertRefresh 55-75
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "External Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Mac 32M/GeForce
440 Go
64M]"
Monitor "External Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"720x400" "640x480
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
"720x400" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Mac 32M/GeForce
440 Go
64M]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Default Screen"
Screen 1 "External Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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