kawlin
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 Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject: Dell 2005FPW and Dell Inspiron 2560 Dual-Head fantasticness |
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Hi. I wanted to post the configuration that I used to get my Inspiron 2560 to work with the nvidia drivers and my widscreen monitor (dell 2005FPW) because I've found a bunch of really long threads with such information, but nothing concise. Here goes:
This set-up pretty much works (text is a little flickery in X on the widescreen). Note that the laptop display can only handle up to 1024x768 (I think, anway), so I've added panning domain parameters to the meta-modes line of the nvidia drivers option section. (Getting the nvidia stuff to work with TwinView (their dual-head implementation) is not terribly hard once you read the documentation at /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-1.0.xxxx-rx/README.gz), note that lots of things can open compressed texts (i used "less").
My junk: P4 1.4Ghz, Nvidia GeForce2 Go, Gentoo 2.4.24
FIRST: there has been much discussion of the newer nVidia drivers not working properly with the older cards. the thing that most people got to work was to downgrade to nvidia-kernel version 1.0.6111 (ie. emerge it by the path). without doing this, i couldn't get X to display on a single screen. Also, AGP support had to be removed from the kernel (the nvidia card has it's own agp support, it's turned on in the xorg.conf file).
Things I did that may or may not have been necessary: removed advanced power management junk in my kernel.
THEN: I used this Xorg.conf to get dual displays:
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Dual-Head"
Screen 0 "DualHeadScreen" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "false" #need to turn this off to use nvidia's TwinView xinerama extensions
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
#Load "dri" #the nvidia docs say to disable this, but i'm not sure whether or not it's necessary
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
#USB Mouse
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Internal"
VendorName "Dell"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "External"
VendorName "Dell"
ModelName "2005FPW"
DisplaySize 430 270
UseModes "16:10"
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
#this modeline might not be completely correct. I have found conflicting ones.
Identifier "16:10"
ModeLine "1680x1050" 146.2 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync -vsync
EndSection
Section "Device"
#even though I'm really using 2 DFP's,
#since I'm not using DVI to connect to the external one,
#it is seen by the card as a CRT.
Option "NvAGP" "1" #this tells the card to use its own AGP stuff
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "CRT-0 RightOf DFP-0" #this says that my external monitor will be placed to the right of my laptop
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "UseEdidFreqs" #these lines tell the card to probe my internal monitor for freq values, read the
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "UseEdidFreqs" # nvidia documentation for more info (/usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-blah/)
Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1024x768 @1024x1050, CRT-0: 1680x1050" #the "@" here says that the laptop display will be able to
#pan down to 1050 pixels, so it can see the whole length
#of the other monitor.
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV11 [GeForce2 Go]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
#note: when using dual-head with nvidia chips in a laptop,
#the external monitor becomes the primary display, so set it's values here and
#set the internal values in the nvidia device options above.
Identifier "DualHeadScreen"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "External"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1680x1050"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1680x1050"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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My screen still flickers like a banshee when i shutdown the X server. Don't know how (or care?) to fix this. Any suggestions, comments, etc.? yeah. i'm bored
colin |
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