xorg.conf no longer changeabe by system-config-display
Irvine Short
irvine.short at intecbilling.com
Wed May 31 08:36:18 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 22:15 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> > Em Segunda 29 Maio 2006 08:38, Irvine Short escreveu:
> >> I have an IBM T43 with the Intel 915 chipset running FC5. I wanted to
> >> extend my desktop onto my external monitor which would not work using
> >> system-config-display. I then manually hacked my xorg.conf and now I
> >> have a working extended desktop but I can no longer go into
> >> system-config-display.
>
>
> As a GUI tool, it expects some items within a certain location and
> format to deal with the configuration file.
Yep, that's what the python errors looked like.
> Anyway, it would help to progress the s-c-display tool if you would file
> a bug regarding the failures encountered with the tool and your
> customized and working xorg.conf file to the developers. Dual-display
> and s-c-display need a lot of improvement.
Good idea, I'll look into that.
> >> Anyone have any tips for getting around this please? Also a neat idea
> >> for choosing different xorg.conf files for whether or not I have my
> >> external monitor connected would be handy.
>
> That indeed would be handy to have a profile manager for different
> display conditions in a similar fashion to network cards or other items
> are dynamically controlled.
I'll have a look to see if http://netenv.sourceforge.net/ works - it
says in the blurb it will do your xorg.conf along with proxies etc.
> > Your video is working ok using the i815 driver?
Yes, with the i810 driver. It worked out of the box with a single
monitor but I had to hack it for the extended desktop.
I used the xorg.conf from http://news.tiker.net/hardware/r52 with a few
tweaks. My own xorg.conf is below.
Cheers,
--Irvine
Section "Files"
#FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "xinerama"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "record"
Load "type1"
Load "v4l"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "crd0"
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Screen 0
Option "VideoRam" "32768"
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
Option "DDC" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "crd1"
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "VideoRam" "32768"
Screen 1
Option "DDC" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monLCD"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-49
VertRefresh 43-72
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monExternal"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 31-80
VertRefresh 55-150
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "scrLCD"
Device "crd0"
Monitor "monLCD"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "scrExternal"
Device "crd1"
Monitor "monExternal"
DefaultDepth 24
# SubSection "Display"
# Depth 15
# Modes "1280x1024"
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Depth 16
# Modes "1280x1024"
# EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Depth 24
# Modes "1400x1050"
# EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "true"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "scrLCD"
Screen "scrExternal" LeftOf "scrLCD"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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