I'm trying to get a dual-head setup working on my Lenovo T60, without any success, despite having looked at number of pieces of documentation, in particular the comprehensive-seeming wiki entry at http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12, so I'd be grateful if someone could give me a push in the right direction.
I'm running Sid, with the 2.6.29-2 kernel, and version 1.6.2 RC 1 of the xorg server, with Gnome as my WM. My video card is the ATI Radeon X1300; my X log shows it as: (--) PCI:*(0...@1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] rev 0, Mem @ 0xd8000000/134217728, 0xee100000/65536, I/O @ 0x00002000/256, BIOS @ 0x??????? ?/131072 The built-in display is 1400 x 1050, and the monitor I'd like to use is 1280 x 1024. I want this monitor to display a separate window. I would like to take advantage of dynamic configuration using grandr, as I want to be able to plug a monitor in without restarting X. I normally don't have an xorg.conf file, since the auto-generated one works fine. However, this seems to be loading the "radeon" driver, and the wiki I mentioned above implies that only the "radeonhd" or "ati" drivers allow for dynamic configuration. I tried using "X -configure" to generate an xorg.conf, and then specified the ati or radeonhd drivers, but both of these caused hard lockups. Also, I note that if I boot the machine with a monitor attached, all of the output goes to that monitor, not the built-in screen. I don't mind having an actual conf file, but I need the flexibility of unplugging the monitor and moving around without compromising the built-in display. When I use the auto-generated xorg.conf and run grandr, I'm able to do some things, such as flip the image on the second monitor, but in the "Layout" tab, the "Clone" or "Extend" options are grayed out, and I can't drag the icons around. And when I run xrandr on the commandline, it tells me "Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1400 x 1050, maximum 1400 x 1400", so if the maximum really is 1400 x 1400, it seems like dual-head would never be possible. I'm at a loss about what to try next, or what details of my system would be helpful to provide. Any suggestions? Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
