On Sam, 2003-01-18 at 18:13, Stef�n Freyr Stef�nsson wrote:
>
> The thing is that I have an IBM T30 laptop with an ATI Radeon Mobility
> 7500 display adapter. I've set up Linux on it (kernel 2.4.20) and KDE
> 3.0.4 running on top of XFree86 v. 4.2.1.
[...]
> 1) If I try to set up a dual head configuration (like the one displayed
> in my "Heima" configuration in the XF86Config-4 file below) then the X
> window system simply crashes. Below my config file you can see the log
> file for trying to run "startx -- -layout Heima".
Maybe specifying the bus ID in the device sections helps, i.e.
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> 2) If I run the default configuration (either run "startx -- -layout
> Standalone" or simply "startx") the LCD display works beutifully but the
> external display behaves strange... first of all it only displays at
> refresh rates around 50Hz or so... but more importantly, the right side
> of the screen is very "crooked".
[...]
> 2b) In order to try to fix that problem I uncommented the Option
> "CrtScreen" line in my XF86Config-4 file. That resulted in my LCD
> displaying the image in a ridiculous resolution (probably something like
> 640x480) so I quickly commented that option back out.
It's coincidence that anything is displayed on the external head without
that option and on the LCD with it. The only way to get mirroring with
4.2 is to set up multihead with overlapping screens. The driver in
current CVS (to become 4.3.0) OTOH should mirror by default, and
multihead may work better as well.
--
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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