Oops! This didn't make it to the list. Answer to Alan half way down
and more info on card at the bottom.
On 3 November 2010 22:20, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2010 20:55:01 you wrote:
>> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Mick
>> did
>>
>> opine thusly:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I am trying to set up two monitors, but have next to no experience on
>> > the subject. Last time I set up two monitors on a machine was years
>> > ago and I recall using xinerama and xorg.conf. Now I do not use
>> > xorg.conf and I'm still running x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.7-r1
>> >
>> > Upon booting up this machine showed both monitors with the same
>> > resolution and cloning each other.
>>
>> What video driver?
>
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
>
>
>> > $ xrandr -q
>> > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1920 x 1920
>> > VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
>> > axis) 359mm x 287mm
>> >
>> > 1280x1024 75.0*+ 60.0
>> > 1152x864 75.0
>> > 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0
>> > 832x624 74.6
>> > 800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
>> > 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9
>> > 720x400 70.1
>> >
>> > DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
>> > axis) 509mm x 286mm
>> >
>> > 1920x1080 60.0 +
>> > 1280x1024 75.0 60.0*
>> > 1152x864 75.0
>> > 1024x768 75.0 60.0
>> > 800x600 75.0 60.3
>> > 640x480 75.0 59.9
>> > 720x400 70.1
>> >
>> > To change the new larger monitor connected on the DVI port, I ran:
>> >
>> > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto
>> >
>> > and that gave me:
>> >
>> > $ xrandr -q
>> > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1920
>> > VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
>> > axis) 359mm x 287mm
>> >
>> > 1280x1024 75.0*+ 60.0
>> > 1152x864 75.0
>> > 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0
>> > 832x624 74.6
>> > 800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
>> > 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9
>> > 720x400 70.1
>> >
>> > DVI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
>> > axis) 509mm x 286mm
>> >
>> > 1920x1080 60.0*+
>> > 1280x1024 75.0 60.0
>> > 1152x864 75.0
>> > 1024x768 75.0 60.0
>> > 800x600 75.0 60.3
>> > 640x480 75.0 59.9
>> > 720x400 70.1
>> >
>> > Is there some invocation to allow me to set this up like <aheam!>
>> > MSWindows does? I mean, in WinXP all desktop icons and toolbar stays
>> > at the bottom of the DVI monitor. The VGA monitor on the left just
>> > shows the desktop background, but has no toolbar or desktop icons.
>> > The user can however drag application windows from the DVI monitor to
>> > the VGA monitor, seamlessly between the two. On this machine I can't
>> > - they are just clones of each other ...
>From lshw:
*-display:0 UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RV380 0x3e50 [Radeon X600]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0
bus info: p...@0000:01:00.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:d0000000-dfffffff
ioport:b000(size=256) memory:cfee0000-cfeeffff
memory:cfec0000-cfedffff
*-display:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Display controller
product: RV380 [Radeon X600] (Secondary)
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 0.1
bus info: p...@0000:01:00.1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:cfef0000-cfefffff
>From lspci -v
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 0x3e50
[Radeon X600] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 0328
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
Memory at cfee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at cfec0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600] (Secondary)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 0329
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at cfef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Please ask if you need more.
PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the
application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they
will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the right
hand. The same happens when maximising an application window on the
right. I don't remember seeing this in Linux - applications I think
maximised across both screens.
--
Regards,
Mick
