Multihead with SuSE 10.1 and HP laptop
Hi all
I have a HP Compaq NX9010 laptop with a Ati IGP345M chipset display card
running SuSE 10.1.
I use sax2 to enable multihead mode. The second display is a Dell LCD
screen and is set as LCD->1024x768.
My problem is that as soon as I plug the screen in to the port at the
back of the laptop and restart X, my laptop's display goes dead and the
external screen takes over.
Multihead worked fine in previous versions of SuSE on the same laptop.
Below is a copy of my xorg.conf file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.
JvdW
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# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2006-09-27T14:59:21+0200.
#
# Version: 7.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 15:02, JvdW wrote:
My problem is that as soon as I plug the screen in to the port at the back of the laptop and restart X, my laptop's display goes dead and the external screen takes over.
Multihead worked fine in previous versions of SuSE on the same laptop.
i'm not using multihead, but on my laptop the external monitor has to be connect at boot-time or it doesn't work. Have you tried that? -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
Hi all
I have a HP Compaq NX9010 laptop with a Ati IGP345M chipset display card running SuSE 10.1.
I use sax2 to enable multihead mode. The second display is a Dell LCD screen and is set as LCD->1024x768.
My problem is that as soon as I plug the screen in to the port at the back of the laptop and restart X, my laptop's display goes dead and the external screen takes over.
Multihead worked fine in previous versions of SuSE on the same laptop.
Below is a copy of my xorg.conf file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance. JvdW [..snip..]
Section "Device" BoardName "RS200 4337" BusID "1:5:0" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]" [...snip...]
I would suggest you try changing the driver to radeon10b. I had the same type of issue on an Evo N610c, and after pulling out my hair someone on the list pointed me to a bugzilla link that indicated the old radeon driver was included because of issues like this. You can refer to it as radeon10b or radeonold I believe. Hope that helps. Michael
[..snip..]
Section "Device" BoardName "RS200 4337" BusID "1:5:0" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]" [...snip...]
I would suggest you try changing the driver to radeon10b. I had the same type of issue on an Evo N610c, and after pulling out my hair someone on the list pointed me to a bugzilla link that indicated the old radeon driver was included because of issues like this. You can refer to it as radeon10b or radeonold I believe.
Hi Micael I tried all of this and still not working. What I'm thinking is that the BusID on the Second device needs to be specified, but how would I get that id? Regards JvdW
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 8:42 am, JvdW wrote:
What I'm thinking is that the BusID on the Second device needs to be specified, but how would I get that id?
You could try to set the laptop (with BIOS control) to only use the external, then use sax to auto-detect, and see what ID it puts in the auto-generated xorg.conf file B-)
JvdW a écrit :
[..snip..]
Section "Device" BoardName "RS200 4337" BusID "1:5:0" Driver "radeon" Identifier "Device[0]"
[...snip...]
I would suggest you try changing the driver to radeon10b. I had the same type of issue on an Evo N610c, and after pulling out my hair someone on the list pointed me to a bugzilla link that indicated the old radeon driver was included because of issues like this. You can refer to it as radeon10b or radeonold I believe.
Hi Micael
I tried all of this and still not working.
What I'm thinking is that the BusID on the Second device needs to be specified, but how would I get that id?
Regards JvdW
Hello, I've a HP ZD8000 laptop, I installed the ATI fglrx driver which have now a very good configuration tool (don't use SaX2). I'm able to run either one head, or multihead or one head and TV out without any problem, with 3 different Xorg.conf files. 3D is running well. Michel.
Hi Micael
I tried all of this and still not working.
What I'm thinking is that the BusID on the Second device needs to be specified, but how would I get that id?
Regards JvdW
Hello,
I've a HP ZD8000 laptop, I installed the ATI fglrx driver which have now a very good configuration tool (don't use SaX2). I'm able to run either one head, or multihead or one head and TV out without any problem, with 3 different Xorg.conf files. 3D is running well.
Michel.
I installed the drivers but it seems my card is not supported... :( I'm running out of ideas here... Regards JvdW
On 27/09/06 07:02, JvdW wrote:
Hi all
I have a HP Compaq NX9010 laptop with a Ati IGP345M chipset display card running SuSE 10.1.
I use sax2 to enable multihead mode. The second display is a Dell LCD screen and is set as LCD->1024x768. There is a lot of material on the gentoo wiki. Start here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Category:ATI Specific information on the proprietary driver: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers If you want the open-source driver instead: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers Maybe this will help too (I didn't look at it): http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors Finally, if you want or need additional help, google for the following: "IGP 345M" Linux which will bring up nearly 800 references.
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