On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 20:16, D. Sen wrote: > I would like to have a 70-80 Hz refresh rate CRT display simultaneously > with my LCD display on my laptop equipped with the ATI Radeon Mobility > chipset. This is especially for presentations where I can control my LCD > screen and have the others watch what I am doing on a bigger screen > (perhpas even on a projector). I havent been able to figure out how to > configure my XF86Config-4 to do this. If I set the CrtScreen Option, I > only get a display on the external monitor. If I dont, then the server > scans the LCD screen for clock rates and the best I can achieve on the > external display is a refresh rate of around 53 Hz.
Set up multihead with two device sections containing the Screen directive and two screen sections. Make the screens overlap in the layout section if you want mirroring. > lspci -vv reports: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility > M6 LW (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > > XFree86 -configure reports: > BoardName "Radeon Mobility M7 LW" > > Dont know if the the difference in M6/7 between the lspci output and > XFree86 probe is of any use. lspci is just not quite correct. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
