Gateway M675 Dual Head - going round in circles...

[Guest]

I've got Jaunty up and running on my Gateway M675 laptop, and the external VGA displays in:

System -> System Settings -> Display

and I can change the resolution.

I can't however work out how to get it working as dual head, single desktop. Looks like things with xorg have progressed somewhat since I last looked, because my xorg.conf file is extremely bare. All it has is:

Section "Device"
    Identifier   "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier   "Default Screen"
    Monitor     "Configured Monitor"
    Device     "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Anyone got any pointers on how I can get this configured? I've searched around, but not found an answer that works (and I managed to bork my X install on one, forcing a re-install). And no, I didn't take notes last night while plodding through this.

[lmilano]

Re: Gateway M675 Dual Head - going round in circles...

Arrg, are you using the ati binary drivers? It seems like this can be set up by using a combination of system settings + the ati control center, and for what people have been reporting it is probably not worth the trouble (it seems very shaky at this point)

Hope this helps!

[Guest]

Re: Gateway M675 Dual Head - going round in circles...

No, not using the ATI drivers right now. Is it worth playing with?

I don't need to play games (3d) - just be able to run a bunch of shells on the second screen.

[lmilano]

Re: Gateway M675 Dual Head - going round in circles...

then i sould strongly recommend you stay with the open source ones (just browse around for ati issues in jaunty, they are incredibly difficult to solve)

i'll play with my eeepc and see if dual head "big desktop" support can be enabled in kde 4.3 (apparenlty it was not possible in 4.2)

[The Recorder]

Re: Gateway M675 Dual Head - going round in circles...

I'm using the open source ATI drivers, and the following xorg.conf. You will have to change it to meet your configuration, but, for me, both of my screens work, and all desktops (at the moment, 2) are working independently. I have different widgets and wallpapers on each screen (at the moment, 4).

Good luck!

# xorg.conf (X.Org 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 xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man 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.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# 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 "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Dual Head Layout"
Screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,il"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 2048 768
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "monitor-DVI-I_2/analog" "DVI-0"
Option "monitor-DVI-I_1/analog" "DVI-1"
Option "RROutputOrder" "DVI-I_2"
Option "DPI" "96x96"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DVI-0"
Option "Position" "1024 0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DVI-1"
Option "LeftOf" "DVI-0"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "True"
# Option "Xinerama" "True"
EndSection