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I've been running the ATI-driver with dual-head for some time now, and it works great on the LCD-panel of my laptop with an extra CRT.
I want to start using TV-OUT via S-Video to my TV. Enabling TV-OUT is OK, and the TV gives me a somewhat blurry image, but this is the case: Suddenly the dual-head setup uses my TV as the second monitor, and clones the LCD and CRT.
So..
The LCD+CRT dual head has become LCD+CRT clone with TV as dual-head
I would like to make the clone between my extra CRT and the TV, so I still have the LCD-panel of my laptop on its own head, and the CRT+TV share the second head.
Any ideas? I've been googling around abit and tried changing the XF86Config-4 in different ways, but I can't get it to work.
Is the ATI control panel installed? I'm pretty sure that can configure the output. If not that, then you may have to manually change the file. If that be the case, could you post your xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)?
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Graphics Adapter connector 0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "backingstore"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0 # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
# Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection
# Any number of ServerLayout sections may be present. Each describes
# the way multiple screens are organised. A specific ServerLayout
# section may be specified from the X server command line with the
# "-layout" option. In the absence of this, the first section is used.
# When now ServerLayout section is present, the first Screen section
# is used alone.
Section "ServerLayout"
# The Identifier line must be present
Identifier "Server Layout"
# Each Screen line specifies a Screen section name, and optionally
# the relative position of other screens. The four names after
# primary screen name are the screens to the top, bottom, left and right
# of the primary screen.
I've tried to change the DesktopSetup manually, but nothing happens. I'm going to try to run fglrxconfig again and setup Big Desktop between my LCD and CRT, that is the second best thing.
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