Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?

[Gene Horodecki]

Actually, they did end up working for me, with the one exception that 
desktop effects won't work (properly) on anything bigger then dual 
1024x768.  But I had my 1024x768 plus 1600x1200 monitor working fine out 
the VGA port of my T42 without desktop effects.  I've attached the post 
below that works.  Substitute DVI-0 for VGA-0 if you're using the VGA port.

Unfortunately the desktop effects problem is due to a limitation with 
the card.. Compiz needs the entire desktop (both screens together) to be 
a single texture, and the card can only handle a maximum texture size of 
2048x2048.

HERE IS THE POST:

i have a T42p and an external display connected via DVI on the 
Thinkpad's docking station. When X starts, both displays show the same 
content (mirrored display). So i first have to switch off one of them 
and then switch on again for real dual head display:

xrandr --output DVI-0 --off

xrandr --output DVI-0 --mode 1600x1200 --left-of LVDS

I also have to add "Virtual 3200 1200" in SubSection "Display" of 
Section "Screen" in xorg.conf to get an 1600x1200+1600x1200 resolution. 
Video card driver is "radeon"

Jeremey Wise wrote:
> I know this is a bit late on the response but ... work :P
>
> Dual head features of the IBM Thinkpad series T41, T42, and T43 models
> do NOT work and likely never will at this rate.
>
> I posted a kernel bug back almost two years ago and it is still ongoing.
>
> I am moving to a T6x model soon so I PRAY that this is resolved and will
> post once I find out more.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239332
>
>
>
> Jeremey Wise
> Senior Consultant
> Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions
> RHCE,MCSE,CNE,PSE,TSM
>
>
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> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 7:00 PM
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> Subject: Anyone else have a T42 /w Fedora?
>
>
> Hi there.. I'm posting because Fedora is not working properly on my T42.
> I
> can't get the dual-head feature to work.  I was wondering if anyone else
> out there has a T42 with Fedora?  Someone suggested trying to use
> 'xrandr'
> to get dual head to work but all that did for me was hang Gnome.
>
> I'm hoping I can get this to work because I so much prefer Fedora for
> development but running single-head makes it undoable.
>
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