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DesiLILO 07-25-2006 12:39 PM

Problems with dual head display in a laptop
 
Hi,

I've been desperately trying to get my new 19" LCD to work with my laptop in a dual-setup. My laptop (a Dell Inspiron 2200) has a Intel i915GM chipset (ubuntu is using the i810 driver for the display). It is capable of supporting dual-head setup and I'm using it successfully in Windows XP.

After a bit of playing with the options, I have only managed to get the card to clone to the VGA out. But even this I'm not happy with because when I'm doing the cloning, the output to the secondary display (VGA) is at the same resolution (1024x768) but my 19" LCD can support 1280x1024.

Two things I wanna do but need help with:
1. Cloning the display at the external LCD's native resolution.
2. If possible, get the dual-head working with proper spanning.

I'm pasting my xorg.conf and the output of running "lspci" below:-

Code:

# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#  sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

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/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        # path to defoma fonts
        FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        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"        "pc104"
        Option                "XkbLayout"        "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier        "Configured Mouse"
        Driver                "mouse"
        Option                "CorePointer"
        Option                "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option                "Protocol"                "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option                "ZAxisMapping"                "4 5"
        Option                "Emulate3Buttons"        "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier        "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver                "synaptics"
        Option                "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option                "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option                "Protocol"                "auto-dev"
        Option                "HorizScrollDelta"        "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "stylus"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "stylus"
  Option        "ForceDevice"  "ISDV4"              # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "eraser"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "eraser"
  Option        "ForceDevice"  "ISDV4"              # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver        "wacom"
  Identifier    "cursor"
  Option        "Device"        "/dev/wacom"          # Change to
                                                      # /dev/input/event
                                                      # for USB
  Option        "Type"          "cursor"
  Option        "ForceDevice"  "ISDV4"              # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier        "Intel0"
        Driver                "i810"
        BusID                "PCI:0:2:0"
        Option                "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
        Option                "Clone" "true"
        Screen        0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier        "Onboard"
        Option                "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier        "Screen0"
        Device                "Intel0"
        Monitor                "Onboard"
        DefaultDepth        24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth                1
                Modes                "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth                4
                Modes                "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth                8
                Modes                "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth                15
                Modes                "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth                16
                Modes                "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth                24
                Modes                "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier        "Default Layout"
        Screen        0        "Screen0"        0        0
        InputDevice        "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice        "Configured Mouse"
        InputDevice    "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice    "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice    "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice        "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode        0666
EndSection

Quote:

root@krsnalicious:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 03)
Any sort of help will be really appreciated.

Cheers,
Harish

chrisortiz 07-27-2006 07:06 PM

http://ozlabs.org/~jk/docs/mergefb/

the link pretty much just states that you need to add another screen to set up extended display at different resolutions

i would recamend editing your your xorg.conf file and changing your driver to i915, you'd get better performance.


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