[Libdlo] ubuntu 10.04 / Lilliput UM-70 as secondary screen

[scar]

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hello all,

i'm using ubuntu 10.04 and have a Lilliput UM-70 displaylink-based
monitor. i've found a patchwork of guides explaining how to get it
running without much luck. mostly karuppuswamy.com's[1]. the best i can
do is get it running as a
primary monitor. the gdm login window and my main desktop will show up
on it. the UM-70 is a tiny 7" screen so this config is unacceptable. i
would like it to be a secondary screen next to my primary screen that i
can drag stuff to, for example.

i've read that i need to blacklist fbcon,bitblit,font,tileblit.
frankly, i don't know what this blacklisting is supposed to do; it
doesn't seem to make any difference either way.

also, i would rather not have to add "vga=normal nomodeset" to the grub
command line since it destroys the high resolution that i can use on the
console on my main display. again, using this doesn't seem to make any
difference.

in fact, i've undone those changes and gotten the displaylink device to
work fine as a primary screen using xorg.conf settings (i also still
have the modification to gdm/Init/Default in the /etc directory). i
guess this is
commonly referred to as an extended desktop, which i what i'm interested in.

below is my xorg.conf which will make both screens work fine and i can
drag the mouse between them etc. however, it seems, since the
displaylink device is set as 'Screen 0', that is where the gdm login
window shows up and where my main desktop is. i thought it would be easy to
fix that by just changing around the Screen definitions in the
ServerLayout section, to something like this:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Server Layout"
	Screen	0	"Default Screen" 0 0
	Screen  1	"DisplayLinkScreen" RightOf "Default Screen"
	Option		"Xinerama" "Off"
EndSection

while this does set my main LCD back to the primary screen and things
work OK there, it seems to disable the use of the displaylink device; no
desktop shows up and i cannot move the mouse outside of my main LCD
screen ('Default Screen')

let's get a solid guide written to get the UM-70 acting as a secondary
screen


xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Server Layout"
	Screen	0	"DisplayLinkScreen" 0 0
	Screen  1	"Default Screen" RightOf "DisplayLinkScreen"
	Option		"Xinerama" "Off"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"intel"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"DisplayLinkDevice"
	driver		"displaylink"
	Option	"fbdev"	"/dev/fb1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"DisplayLinkMonitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier      "DisplayLinkScreen"
	Device          "DisplayLinkDevice"
	Monitor         "DisplayLinkMonitor"
	DefaultDepth    16
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   16
		Modes   "800x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection



1.
http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/07/19/how-to-get-lilliput-displaylink-based-usb-monitor-um-70-17e902a9-working-in-ubuntu-linux/

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