[opensuse] Duel Screening
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 with a dock. and a Samsung SynchMaster 915N 19 inch monitor. the laptop works great, but I can't get it to split the desktop across two screens. I have gone into SaX2 through YaST and my settings are: Display 1: Intel 965 MG Monitor VESA 1024x768@60 HZ Display 2: Samsung SSYNCHMASTER 1280X1024 Xinerama Multihead is selected for the Dual Head Mode, and the arangement is 2 next to 1. In this setting it simply clones the built in one (at 1024x768) onto the larger one. anyone have this working with a similar box/video card? thanks in advance, -Jesse
Hello What is the video card brand? Do they have native linux drivers? Did you install them? Did you try to config it using the native programs? I work with 3 monitors, and noticed Yast isn't simple when it gets to multiple monitors. I ended up modifying some of the xorg.conf file. Then again, my situation is quite complicated due to two vidcards (both Nvidia) and a wacom tablet. Neil On 1/18/08, Jesse Shaver <J_shaver@comcast.net> wrote:
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 with a dock. and a Samsung SynchMaster 915N 19 inch monitor. the laptop works great, but I can't get it to split the desktop across two screens. I have gone into SaX2 through YaST and my settings are:
Display 1: Intel 965 MG Monitor VESA 1024x768@60 HZ Display 2: Samsung SSYNCHMASTER 1280X1024
Xinerama Multihead is selected for the Dual Head Mode, and the arangement is 2 next to 1.
In this setting it simply clones the built in one (at 1024x768) onto the larger one.
anyone have this working with a similar box/video card?
thanks in advance,
-Jesse
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What is the video card brand? Do they have native linux drivers? Did you install them? Did you try to config it using the native programs?
The card is an "Intel 965G" It has linux drivers that are installed and working. I tried configuring it with sax2, that did not work. I have been playing with the xorg.conf file and have made some progress with xrandr which gives me the status as: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1280 x 1280 VGA connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 376mm x 301mm 1024x768 75.1 + 70.1 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 + 75.0 59.9 1152x864 75.0 74.8 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 1024x768_60 60.0* LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 246mm x 185mm 1024x768 50.0*+ 60.0 40.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 60.0 59.9 (notice that on the first line: "maximum [resalution =] 1280 x 1280" But this does not match my config file. From xorg.conf: .... Section "Screen" Identifier "LScreen" Device "Intel 965G" Monitor "monitor-LVDS" SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" Virtual 2304 2304 EndSubSection EndSection .. This is the only screen section, and notice the "Virtual 2304 2304"... When I run: $xrandr --output VGA --right-of LVDS (which apears to be the command I want) I get: xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1280x1280 (desired size 2048x768) I have restarted the computer with the hope that this will take effect, but it did not. How do I get my virtual screen size to change? (note that sax2 is probably not a good option as I just ripped out a lot of its extra stuff) Thanks, -Jesse
Jesse Shaver wrote:
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 with a dock. and a Samsung SynchMaster 915N 19 inch monitor. the laptop works great, but I can't get it to split the desktop across two screens. I have gone into SaX2 through YaST and my settings are:
Display 1: Intel 965 MG Monitor VESA 1024x768@60 HZ Display 2: Samsung SSYNCHMASTER 1280X1024
Xinerama Multihead is selected for the Dual Head Mode, and the arangement is 2 next to 1.
In this setting it simply clones the built in one (at 1024x768) onto the larger one.
anyone have this working with a similar box/video card?
I think you should let them fight it out at 15 paces. Oh..you mean DUAL screens.
thanks in advance,
-Jesse
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> I think you should let them fight it out at 15 paces. > > Oh..you mean DUAL screens. LOL :D Seriously: genious! -- There are two kinds of people: 1. People who start their arrays with 1. 1. People who start their arrays with 0. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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