Dual Head Sony Vaio VGN-TSN7P

[Josh Triplett]

Richard Lynch wrote:
> [New to list; be gentle...]
> 
> I'm trying to get dual head monitor on a Sony Vaio VGN-TXN17P.
> 
> The second monitor is an HP L1940T.
> 
> I've been Googling and researching, and have reached a state where the
> second monitor (the HP) is a very ugly (unusable) clone of the laptop
> panel -- There are vertical "stripes" of lost pixel columns.
> 
> By enabling Xinerama and the second screen, with Option "clone"
> "false" everywhere, I can also achieve a state where the log claims I
> have THREE screens (not) and when I move the mouse (touchpad) "past"
> the bottom of the bad clone, the touchpad goes DEAD.
> 
> This makes it almost impossible to use the man toolbar/menubar, as you
> might imagine.  And isn't any better in terms of screen real estate
> anyway. :-(
> 
> I also have tried variations on this theme, with and without the
> Screen "Laptop Screen" RightOf "External Screen"
> and with and without the
> Option "Clone" "False"
> 
> I think I've tried all reasonable combinations...
> 
> And I'm sure I've tried several very UN-reasonable combinations :-)
> [through ignorance and desperation]
> 
> I've hand-edited the file, kept backups, etc, and there could easily
> be something totally wonky in there and it's only sheer luck it works
> at all for all I know...
> 
> It's the i810 driver, only the 915 patch to the kernel, which I think
> I successfully applied and/or confirmed it was in there...  Though
> maybe I just fooled myself somehow on that score.
> 
> I have posted the conf file here:
> http://phpbootcamp.com/articles/xorg.conf
> 
> The log file is here:
> http://phpbootcamp.com/articles/Xorg.0.log
> 
> Those two are not QUITE in sync -- The log is from the time when I
> un-comment the Xinerama and second screen lines.
> 
> Can anybody spot anything?
> 
> I'm also publishing my results with the laptop as a whole here:
> http://phpbootcamp.com/articles/vgn_txn17p.htm

You may want to try the newer intel driver with modesetting.

If you still experience the problem with that driver, you should report it as
a bug on http://bugs.freedesktop.org so it does not get lost.

- Josh Triplett

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