Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (255 mails)

[Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 27 of May 2009, Petr Uzel wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I spent some time trying to configure dualhead setup using RandR
> extension but without any success.
>
> I have two LCD displays connected to my
> 'nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)]' card,
> one to DVI, the other to VGA.
>
> So I would expect xrandr -q to show these outputs, but it doesn't:
> > xrandr -q
>
> Screen 0: minimum 640 x 400, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
> default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm

 IIRC the only way to get an output named 'default' is to use a driver which 
supports only xrandr extension older than version 1.2.

> I might be wrong, but I'm under impression that making both (VGA &
> DVI) outputs to appear in 'xrandr -q' output is essential do get
> dualhead working.

 It is not, you just cannot use xrandr, as pre-1.2 versions didn't care about 
multiple monitors at all. Configure it in your xorg.conf .

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