Hi. I'm running Debian unstable on a Lenovo T60. I'd like to run this dual-head with an external monitor, but have been having some problems that I tried to solve but eventually gave up on because I'm so lousy with X configuration. However, I recently discovered that things work fine out-of-the-box with Ubuntu 9.10, running on the same computer (via a live USB stick). So I'm wondering if there's some way to figure out why there's a difference, and whether I can get the Debian system working in the same way.
The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external monitor through the VGA port. I'm running Xorg 1.7.5, and I do not have an xorg.conf at all, I'm letting Xorg generate the configuration. When I plug in the external monitor, and run Display Preferences to try to set up the two displays, I get a popup message reading "The selected configuration for displays could not be applied[:] required virtual size does not fit available size: requested=(2680,1050), minimum=(320, 200), maximum=(1400, 1400)". I've Googled this and found a few bug reports that don't, however, clarify what's going on. But the notable thing for me is that running Ubuntu 9.10, which is running Xorg 1.6.4, this Just Works, with everything else identical--same hardware, same lack of xorg.conf file, etc. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. I'd vastly prefer _not_ to have to start messing around with the configuration file, because apart from this one issue, I don't seem to need one, and Ubuntu doesn't seem to need it either. Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315135348.ga...@panix.com
