i810/intel drivers with VGA SDVO

[Todd Johnson]

I've gotten it working on my work PC at work.  It does have many
problems like not being able to restart X or logout.  However it works
kindof.  This is on Fedora Core 8 but should be similar.  

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
# Driver "intel"
Driver "i810"
# Option "Monitor-VGA" "monitor1"
# Option "Monitor-TMDS-1" "monitor0"
Option "Clone" "false"
Option "MonitorLayout" "DFP,CRT"
Option "VideoRam" "131072"
BusId "PCI:0:2:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
# Driver "intel"
Driver "i810"
Option "MonitorLayout" "DFP,CRT"
Option "VideoRam" "131072"
BusId "PCI:0:2:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor0"
# Option "LeftOf" "monitor1"
# Option "Position" "1280 0"
# Option "Enable" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
# Option "LeftOf" "monitor0"
# Option "Enable" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720" "1152x864" "1152x768"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
# Virtual 2048 1024
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720" "1152x864" "1152x768"
"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
# Virtual 2048 1024
EndSubSection
EndSection

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:13 +0000, Chris Sykes wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:29 +0100, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
> > hi!
> > 
> > > I'm having trouble enabling dual-head (not cloned) video output using
> > > the on-board intel 945G graphics chipset and a plug-in PCIe SDVO card.
> > > Both outputs are analogue VGA.
> > 
> > i had the same goal and it took me nearly a week to come up with a
> > working xorg.conf. i use the latest intel driver from git and the
> > following conf works for me:
> 
> What platform/distro are you using?  If it's centos 5, how painful was
> it getting the pre-requisites for building the latest driver.  I was
> under the impression that the latest intel driver would require a newer
> X server release than is included in centos 5 (7.1.1).
> 
> I'd be happy to build & package the latest driver so long as I don't
> have to rebuild the whole of X etc. to get there :-)
> 
> Thanks for your xorg.conf in any case.
> >