[Watford] Separate VGA Display

CLIFF DEAMER cliff.g3ndc at btinternet.com
Sat Dec 8 12:03:50 GMT 2007


I can't find that one. Location please
cliff

Neel Upadhyaya <bahulneel at gmail.com> wrote: can you send us you Xorg.0.log file please?

On 08/12/2007, CLIFF DEAMER  wrote:
> Thanks to all for your useful comments;
> Yes, I do have a Hot Key configuration for display switching. Function key
> (Fn) plus F10, this worked OK in Windows before I formatted the disk and set
> it up as a Linux only machine.
> I did try the Fn + F10 combination before I asked the question.
> To check the obvious I did an update on xorg.conf which made no difference.
> I am not using "fglrx"
> xorg.conf shows I have the ATI driver. This is what the relevant section of
> the file looks like::
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M4 AGP"
>     Driver        "ati"
>     BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
>     Option        "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier    "Default Screen"
>     Device        "ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M4 AGP"
>     Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
>     DefaultDepth    24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Modes        "1024x768"
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier    "Default Layout"
>     Screen        "Default Screen"
>     InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
>     InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
>
> To answer Yvan's question; I would prefer to have the additional (LCD)
> display dual headed but right now I would settle for it just working!
> Any further suggestions would be appreciated.
> Cliff
>
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