[Libdlo] running 2 instances of X for multihead display

[S W]

Thanks for your prompt reply!  I installed the two modules you
suggested and the script no longer complains about it.  Good!
Unfortunately it still get (new) error messages:

  (EE) DL(0): Unknown EDID version 146
  (EE) DL(0): Unknown EDID version 31

If I ran the same script again, I get the same two error messages, but
the version number differs each time.  I tried to google this error
message but I couldn't find anything concrete.  In case this matters,
I tried this on an xubuntu 11.04laptop with a GMA4500 GPU, and a xubuntu
10.10 netbook with GMA945.   Same error messages (different version
numbers).

Thanks for your help and suggestion.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Marcus Becker <marcus.disi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it looks to me you didn't install the display module for Xorg (does
> Ubuntu still use Xorg or did they switch to wayland?)
> run aptitude and search for those modules like:
> aptitude search displaylink
> and
> aptitude search void
> then you can install them via
> aptitude install <packagename> (usually something like
> xf86-video-displaylink)
>
> xfce4 has a startscript, right? like '/usr/bin/startxfce4' (don't know
> much about Debian or Ubuntu :/ )
>
> Hope that helps :)
>
> Marcus
>
> On 16 July 2011 20:09, S W <partita1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for your script!
> >
> > I have a displaylink device from plugable, and when I tried to run this
> > script on my
> > xubuntu 11.04 laptop I ended up with the error messages
> >
> >   (EE) Failed to load module "displaylink" (module does not exist, 0)
> >
> >   (EE) Failed to load module "void" (module does not exist, 0)
> >   (EE) No drivers available.
> >
> > (I've sent along the complete Xorg.1.log for reference).  How should I
> > modifiy xorg.conf.DL
> > file to load these two files/modules?  I also notice that your .xinitrc2
> > ends with
> >
> >
> >   exec /usr/bin/awesome
> >
> > Since I use xfce I changed that to
> >
> >   exec /usr/bin/xfce4-session
> >
> > Is that correct, and if not, what should it be?
> >
> > I have installed the libdlo library a la
> >
> >  http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/
> >
> >
> > I made an accidential discover today: after xubuntu boots up at the log
> in
> > screen (but before
> > I log in), I pluggd the external monitor to the VGA port; immediately I
> got
> > an extended
> > desktop.  And after I logged in, I was able to drag windows between the
> LCD
> > screen and the
> >
> > external monitor, so at least the libdlo library works!  But when I
> plugged
> > in the displaylink
> > device and then the monitor, I got back the familiar green screen :-(
> >
> > Any advice and comments are most welcome.
> >
> >
> > On April 6, 2011 at 3:08 PM Marcus Becker <marcus.disi at googlemail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I had major trouble getting the second display to work with the nvidia
> >> binary driver on the main display. Lucky me, I found this post:
> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1313190
> >> To share the wisdom I gathered...
> >>
> >> The script displaylink.sh starts xinit with the second xorg.conf.DL
> >> and xinit executes the second .xinitrc2 script in my home directory.
> >> Finally x2x is executed to run in the background, it switched the
> >> input devices between the displays (mouse).
> >>
> >> The x2x program works flawless and I can run awesome twice to have to
> >> independent desktops.
> >> The good thing, this should work with any other card  :)
> >>
> >> One last hint, turn off dpms on the udlfb display (it never wakes up
> >> again)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Marcus
> >>
> >
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