[ati 9600] How to have dual monitor now with the new driver ?

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/18/07, giggz <giggzounet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alex Deucher a écrit :
> > On 9/18/07, GiGGz <giggzounet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> With the old driver I use MergedFB in order to have a "big desktop". I
> >> have a laptop and a CRT. With normal configuration I get (with the old
> >> driver) clone mode when I turn on my CRT. With a different Xorg.conf
> >> (see xorg.conf at the end) I could have an extended desktop on my LCD
> >> and my CRT. I have read that now the MergedFB option have been diseabled
> >> and we must use RandR...how can I do that, in order to have an extended
> >> desktop ? (with two different resolutions...)
> >
> > you'll need to add a virtual line to your config set to the max size
> > desktop you want to use, e.g.,:
> >
> >        Subsection "Display"
> >                Depth   24
> >                Virtual 2680 1050
> >                Modes   "1400x1050"
> >        EndSubSection
> >
> > then
> >
> > dualhead:
> > xrandr --output VGA-0 --right-of LVDS
> >
> > turn vga port off:
> > xrandr --output VGA-0 --off
> >
> > etc.  See xrandr --help for more.
> >
> > Alex
>
> Ok...but it seems that my crt is not found... when I launch xrandr -q i
> get that :
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1400 x 1050, maximum 1400 x 1050
> default connected 1400x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>    1400x1050      60.0*
>    1280x1024      60.0
>    1280x960       60.0
>    1280x800       60.0
>    1280x768       60.0
>    1152x864       60.0
>    1152x768       60.0
>    1024x768       60.0
>    960x720        60.0
>    960x600        60.0
>    928x696        60.0
>    896x672        60.0
>    840x525        60.0
>    832x624        60.0
>    800x600        60.0
>    800x512        60.0
>    720x450        60.0
>    720x400        60.0
>    700x525        60.0
>    640x512        60.0
>    640x480        60.0
>    640x400        60.0
>    640x384        60.0
>    640x350        60.0
>    576x432        60.0
>    576x384        60.0
>    512x384        60.0
>    416x312        60.0
>    400x300        60.0
>    360x200        60.0
>    320x240        60.0
>    320x200        60.0
>    320x175        60.0
>
>
> So I can't do anything else...and when I put the line with virtual in my
> xorg.conf I have a big desktop but on a screen...so it's not an extended
> desktop. The desktop is bigger that my screen...
>
> is there a tip to have a detected crt monitor ?

something is wrong with your install.  Either you have an old version
of xrandr or the randr proto or there's a problem with your xserver or
you are running an old version of the ati driver.

Alex