1680x1050 dual head on i810 (830M chip)

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 17:20 -0700, Konstantin Antselovich wrote:
> Hi xorg gurus, need your help!
> 
> I'm trying to configure Xorg for dual head on Fedora Core 5 with 20'
> external monitor connected to a laptop. Laptop is fujitsu "lifebook"
> with Intel 830M chip and 15' LCD supporting 1024x768. External monitor
> is Samsung SyncMaster 205BW, with max resolution 1680x1050.
> 
> [I think] my configuration recognizes 2 screens and 2 devices
> --
> (II) I810: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100,
>         i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),
>         915GM, 945G, 945GM
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
> (--) Chipset i830M found
> (--) Chipset i830M found
> 
> <skip>
> 
> (II) I810(0): Currently active displays on Pipe A:
> (II) I810(0):   LFP (local flat panel)
> (II) I810(0): Lowest common panel size for pipe A is 1024 x 768
> (II) I810(0): Currently active displays on Pipe B:
> (II) I810(0):   DFP (digital flat panel)
> (II) I810(0): No display size information available for pipe B.

Are you sure that your Samsung is connected via DVI ??

I suspect it's just the VGA connector, and in which case you should be
specifying CRT instead of DFP.

Alan.