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Re: [opensuse-mobile] lenovo X60
- From: Franz Petri <f.petri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:52:34 +0100
- Message-id: <45FE6B72.9000902@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Dieter
Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
> Dear listmembers,
> if anyone of you is using a lenovo X60 laptop and would like to:
> - make FN-F7 switch video output (internal / external / both)
> I can provide support. If I find the time I will post an article in the
> linux-laptop wiki.
> To whom it might concern
maybe you can help me.
This is my setup: I have the x60s, opensuse 10.1., fully updated. It is sitting in a docking station
(ultrabay-something, I think, there is only one docking station for the x60s).
I have two seats (chairs). One is directly in front of the notebook, using the notebook's keyboard
and LCD-display, the other one is at some distance, with a seperate 21-inch-CRT, connected to the
docking station through a loong VGA-extension cable and with seperate (usb)-keyboard/mouse.
I gave up the idea of having a full multiseat-configuration with 2 users logged in at the same time
and working on their own, independend desktops, after reading
http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/14-Multiseat-X-Under-X11R6.97.0.html
which basically says that this is not possible with one dual-head card, you would need 2 seperate
(pci)-devices for that.
A good compromise for me would be that I have the same picture on both monitors (including the
login-screen), so I can choose on which seat I want to sit.
I found some problems with that:
- If I boot with the lid opened then:
a) closing the lid switches the external CRT off,
even with "ignore lid closing" enabled in
yast->system->power management->acpi-setup
b) the external CRT is running at 1024x768@60Hz, although I would like to have
1600x1200@100Hz
- If I boot with the lid closed then:
still only the modelines of the xorg.conf for the LCD are recognized,
which somehow means that at least I can 85Hz refresh rate, but still nothing beyond 1024x768.
I tried to change the BIOS-setting for "display" from "internal lcd" or "external vga" to "both",
buth then I have no picture on the internal LCD at all (?!).
So when I read that you made the Fn-F7-switch working I thought of:
2 seperate screens and monitors in the xorg.conf (as proposed at
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Media_Accelerator_950 )*
+ switching between those screens with Fn-F7, maybe already at the login screen.
Is this possible?
* (I already had this configuration running but it did not work as "clone" but only as "xinerama"
which gave me a second desktop on the CRT which is not what I wanted, I want my regular "first"
desktop).
>
>
>
> Dieter Jurzitza
>
> AT T-ONLINE DOT DE
>
Kind regards,
Franz.
Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
> Dear listmembers,
> if anyone of you is using a lenovo X60 laptop and would like to:
> - make FN-F7 switch video output (internal / external / both)
> I can provide support. If I find the time I will post an article in the
> linux-laptop wiki.
> To whom it might concern
maybe you can help me.
This is my setup: I have the x60s, opensuse 10.1., fully updated. It is sitting in a docking station
(ultrabay-something, I think, there is only one docking station for the x60s).
I have two seats (chairs). One is directly in front of the notebook, using the notebook's keyboard
and LCD-display, the other one is at some distance, with a seperate 21-inch-CRT, connected to the
docking station through a loong VGA-extension cable and with seperate (usb)-keyboard/mouse.
I gave up the idea of having a full multiseat-configuration with 2 users logged in at the same time
and working on their own, independend desktops, after reading
http://blog.chris.tylers.info/index.php?/archives/14-Multiseat-X-Under-X11R6.97.0.html
which basically says that this is not possible with one dual-head card, you would need 2 seperate
(pci)-devices for that.
A good compromise for me would be that I have the same picture on both monitors (including the
login-screen), so I can choose on which seat I want to sit.
I found some problems with that:
- If I boot with the lid opened then:
a) closing the lid switches the external CRT off,
even with "ignore lid closing" enabled in
yast->system->power management->acpi-setup
b) the external CRT is running at 1024x768@60Hz, although I would like to have
1600x1200@100Hz
- If I boot with the lid closed then:
still only the modelines of the xorg.conf for the LCD are recognized,
which somehow means that at least I can 85Hz refresh rate, but still nothing beyond 1024x768.
I tried to change the BIOS-setting for "display" from "internal lcd" or "external vga" to "both",
buth then I have no picture on the internal LCD at all (?!).
So when I read that you made the Fn-F7-switch working I thought of:
2 seperate screens and monitors in the xorg.conf (as proposed at
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Media_Accelerator_950 )*
+ switching between those screens with Fn-F7, maybe already at the login screen.
Is this possible?
* (I already had this configuration running but it did not work as "clone" but only as "xinerama"
which gave me a second desktop on the CRT which is not what I wanted, I want my regular "first"
desktop).
>
>
>
> Dieter Jurzitza
>
> AT T-ONLINE DOT DE
>
Kind regards,
Franz.
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