Trying to get a 2 screen one display working.

[Alex Deucher]

On 3/15/06, Jon Bowman <jon.bowman at bowmannet.us> wrote:
> I am running Solaris with xorg 6.9  and a ATI Mobility 7500 graphics card.
>
> In a previous version of xorg I had things setup where my laptop
> monitor  and an
> external monitor  were on a different screens but one display (:0.0 & :0.0).
> Note these were not
> xineramed. I could move the pointer between screens but not windows.
> Also as
> a point of note the 2 screens are different resolutions.
>
> I hope the terminology is correct I am still trying to wrap my head
> around some
> of the X terminology.
>
> I think around 6.9 it would seem; things broke for me and  can't get the
> magic
> incantation to work. The xorg.conf I had before causes a panic which
> appears to be the result of having both
>
> Screen
>
> and
>
> MonitorLayout
>
> lines in the Device section.
>
> (I attached the xorg.conf and the log from the system thats working on
> xorg 6.8.99.903).
>
>
> Basically its has  a ServerLayout that specifies Screen0 and Screen1
> where Screen1
> is on the RightOf Screen0.
>
> (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
> (**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
> (**) |   |-->Device "Card0"
> (**) |-->Screen "Screen1" (1)
> (**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor1"
> (**) |   |-->Device "Card1"
>
> Card0 and Card1 are the same physical graphics card (Radeon Mobility 9700).
>
> If anyone has any suggestion on how to convert the existing xorg.conf to
> 6.9 I
> would greatly appreciate it.

the same config should work unchanged between 6.8.x and 6.9.x,
unfortunately, there seem to be some issues with dualhead on radeon in
the 6.9 and 7.0 servers.  You might try  changing the modes on each
each using xrandr or Ctrl-Alt-+/-, that seems to work around the
problem on mergedfb.

Alex

>
> thanks
> Jon
>
>