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bgzee
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 Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 4:39 pm Post subject: multiple monitors with laptop |
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I have a dell inspiron 5100 which has an ati radeon 7500. It has a spot to plug in a monitor in the back, and I'm wondering if it would be possible to set up an extra monitor to work with X so i could have both the laptop display and an extra display running seperate desktops.
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taveren
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| It is possible and quite fun to use. I do this myself on my Dell notebook. You can basically just follow the same steps with regular multimonitor setups. Define two monitors, two screens and then set one of them to left or right of the other. I can post my XF86Config if you can't figure it out. |
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bgzee
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| excellent... I would appreciate it if you would post your config, so I would have something to go off of. Thanks! |
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taveren
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" Rightof "Screen0"
# Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "XInput"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "extmod"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "Yes"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 330 240
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "DELL"
ModelName "DELL P780"
HorizSync 31.5 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50 - 100
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Dell"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 31.5 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50 - 100
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForcePCIMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i>
#Option "AGPMode" "true" # <i>
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # <i>
#Option "RingSize" # <i>
#Option "BufferSize" # <i>
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
Option "PanelOff" "true" # [<bool>]
Option "DDCMode" "false" # [<bool>]
Option "CloneDisplay" "1" # <i>
Option "CloneMode" "1600x1200" # [<str>]
Option "CloneHSync" "31.5-82" # [<str>]
Option "CloneVRefresh" "50-100" # [<str>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "CrtScreen" "True"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Radeon Mobility M7 LW"
option "AGPMode" "2"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "users"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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This comes with a big "Works for me!" warning. This has my notebook LCD on the right hand side of the larger Dell monitor. Obviously, you can change that at the top of the config. |
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