I'm posting this to the list in the hope that someone else may find it useful.
For the record, I have this working on an IBM ThinkPad T30 laptop with the ATI Radeon M7 LW (Radeon Mobility 7500) running Debian unstable with XFree86 4.2.1, KDE 3.0.4. On this setup I didn't have to do anything out of the ordinary to the actual setup (no custom compiling or anything). It took me a little while figuring out how to correctly set up XF86Config-4 and there is some sort of a problem with initializing the display adapter. The problem description is that the LCD screen started to flicker a lot and the image was fuzzy. The solution to this is to unplug any external display during bootup of the machine, the LCD will then work fine as well as the external display when hooked back up... just don't have it plugged in when you're booting up. This may be specific to my ThinkPad but it did give me a lot of grief so it should be pointed out to anybody that is using this adapter (Nathaniel: it would be very much appreciated if you either posted to the list or at least sent it to me whether you have this problem on your Dell laptop... I'd like to know if it's the IBM bios that's screwing up or if it is the display adapter / ati driver that's not handling it right). My XF86Config-4 is attached to this letter with comments about my "special parts". These comments start with ##. Notice that the Xinerama option is not turned on anywhere but in my "althingi" layout. The reason for that is that in the other two layouts where I have an external monitor, those monitors are not good enough to keep up with the LCD in terms of resolution. Since I'm using KDE, having different resolutions on the two screens poses a problem if you use Xinerama because kwin (the KDE window manager) doesn't seem to be Xinerama aware and therefore creates "dead" zones on the screen with the lower resolution. This resulted in me loosing my panel because it got displayed in a "dead" zone and therefore I have Xinerama turned off everywhere except at "althingi" because there I have an external screen that is capable of displaying the same resolution as my LCD (1400 x 1050). I hope this post will help somebody getting dual monitor set up on the X server. If there are any questions or comments please feel free to contact me. Just keep in mind my little problem with having an external monitor hooked up at bootup time. Please let me know if other laptop brands behave this way too. Regards, Stefan Freyr. fimmtudagur 23. jan�ar 2003 05:18 > Hi Stefan, > > I saw your post to the XFree86 that implied you were able to > successfully set up dual-head on your Radeon Mobility 7500. I've got a > Dell Inspiron 4150 with the same card (Radeon Mobility M7 LW) and I've > been dying to find out how to set that up. Just to be clear, I'm > guessing you meant that you got a non-mirrored (independent LCD and > external monitor screens) mode working. > > If that's the case, could you share how you did it? I tried making > multiple screens in XF86Config-4 but that didn't seem to work. > > I'm using Xf86 4.2.1 from Mandrake 9.0, by the way. > > Thanks! > -n8 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
