xorg-server 1.6 flgrx->xf86-video-ati

signor_rossi · 2009-04-28 15:56:51

@mmre
JFYI, I saw a thread somewhere in the forums that stated that xrandr doesn't like these commands chained together. So try to split it maybe. BTW, 'Clones: DVI-0' in the VGA-0 section looks suspicious.

banshee28 · 2009-04-29 00:06:00

I was a able to get it installed and it seems to be working pretty good! I have 2 "separate" displays each with their own backgrounds and windows.

But there are a few things I am not sure is working. At first I was using xfce4-panel but now I want to use lxpanel, one for EACH screen. I have my main lxpanel setup on the LVDS screen, but I cant setup a 2nd one on the bottom of the 2nd mointor to look similar to the first. Maybe this is the way its designed, but with xfce4-panel it worked pretty good on both monitors. I can setup lxpanel for a new 2nd panel on the left but its size and position is way out of porportion since it goes too far off the bottom of the screen. In fact the lxpanel on the first screen does the same thing to the left.

Other than that its working pretty good.

EDIT: I just noticed that one small part of my main screen is now bleeding over into the 2nd. When I go to history or bookmarks under firefox, I see part of the menu on the 2nd monitor. However the window itself looks perfectly aligned to the left edge, a terminal window appears fine also, just the menu bars like bookmarks under firefox for some reason are bleeding over?
I set the xrandr settings like this:

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1680x1050 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --pos 1680x0 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --left-of LVDS

Here is my xorg.conf:

#Section "ServerFlags"
#    Option        "AutoAddDevices" "False"
#EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen        "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    #DisplaySize      370   230    # mm
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "LPL"
    ModelName    "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "BusType"                # [<str>]
        #Option     "CPPIOMode"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPusecTimeout"          # <i>
        #Option     "AGPMode"                # <i>
        #Option     "AGPFastWrite"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AGPSize"                # <i>
        #Option     "GARTSize"               # <i>
        #Option     "RingSize"               # <i>
        #Option     "BufferSize"             # <i>
        #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"       # [<bool>]
        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoBackBuffer"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DMAForXv"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FBTexPercent"           # <i>
        #Option     "DepthBits"              # <i>
        #Option     "PCIAPERSize"            # <i>
        #Option     "AccelDFS"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DisplayPriority"        # [<str>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"              # [<str>]
        #Option     "ForceMinDotClock"       # <freq>
        #Option     "ColorTiling"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCrystal"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreTunerPort"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCompositePort"     # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreSVideoPort"     # <i>
        #Option     "TunerType"              # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocPath"     # <str>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocType"     # <str>
        #Option     "ScalerWidth"            # <i>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SubPixelOrder"          # [<str>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DynamicClocks"          # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VGAAccess"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ReverseDDC"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "LVDSProbePLL"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"            # <str>
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ConnectorTable"         # <str>
        #Option     "DefaultConnectorTable"     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultTMDSPLL"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVDACLoadDetect"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForceTVOut"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "TVStandard"             # <str>
        #Option     "IgnoreLidStatus"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultTVDACAdj"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Int10"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "EXAVSync"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ATOMTVOut"              # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Virtual 2960 1050
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
         Virtual 2960 1050
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
         Virtual 2960 1050
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
         Virtual 2960 1050
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
         Virtual 2960 1050
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
         Virtual 2960 1050
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
         Virtual 2960 1050
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Last edited by banshee28 (2009-04-29 00:41:48)

signor_rossi · 2009-04-29 04:57:45

Try with these chain of commands. I had the same effect and with something lke this in /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup it works. Using --left-of too left me again with cloned screens only.

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1680x1050 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --pos 1680x0 &

mmre · 2009-04-29 15:12:23

It doesn't work. Maybe a intresting fact:
No picture is not no picture. If I turn the LVDS off with xrandr it's really off. If I try to set the LVDS up, it's brighter but no picture on it.

banshee28 · 2009-04-29 21:32:21

signor_rossi wrote:

Try with these chain of commands. I had the same effect and with something lke this in /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup it works. Using --left-of too left me again with cloned screens only.
xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1680x1050 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --pos 1680x0 &

signor, if you are referring to me, I have 2 "separate" screens with their own backgrounds, etc. However when I right click in ff the entire menu is on the left screen while the ff window is on the right screen. It seems like the positioning is just off some?

signor_rossi · 2009-04-30 14:51:24

banshee28 wrote:

signor_rossi wrote:
Try with these chain of commands. I had the same effect and with something lke this in /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup it works. Using --left-of too left me again with cloned screens only.
xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1680x1050 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --pos 1680x0 &
signor, if you are referring to me, I have 2 "separate" screens with their own backgrounds, etc. However when I right click in ff the entire menu is on the left screen while the ff window is on the right screen. It seems like the positioning is just off some?

If you use xrandr you actually don't have 2 separate screens, but one big one and a window manager that supports that.
But my problem wasn't that I had only a menu pop up on the left, I actually could see part of my opera window on my left screen when I had it maximized on my right screen where it was showing as it should (part of the window was cloned right).
If you see only the menu pop up on the wrong screen, I had that too but I don't know how to avoid that. Maybe if your window manager allows to set some points as margin this behaviour will stop.

banshee28 · 2009-05-07 00:37:37

signor_rossi, somehow the menu on the other screen all of a sudden started working properly! Then I guess after on a few reboots its back again!

But another problem is my lxpanel and getting it in the right screen position and width. I cant seem to set it up right using the basic panel settings in lxpanel. If i set it to 90% width, its about 70% on both screens. Cant get it adjusted right? It wont "maximize" to only one screen? What screen options might I be missing?

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1680x1050 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024 &
xrandr --output VGA-0 --pos 1680x0 &

banshee28 · 2009-05-07 01:28:27

The panel issue is most likely a lxpanel issue since when I use the xfce panel it works fine with either screen.

So now I only have the menu on the other screen issue for now, so if I can at least fix this, that would be great!

signor_rossi · 2009-05-07 09:01:57

banshee28 wrote:

The panel issue is most likely a lxpanel issue since when I use the xfce panel it works fine with either screen.
So now I only have the menu on the other screen issue for now, so if I can at least fix this, that would be great!

Did you try setting margins for the screen as I suggested? You can do that in XFce AFAIR.

banshee28 · 2009-05-08 23:08:18

signor_rossi wrote:

banshee28 wrote:
The panel issue is most likely a lxpanel issue since when I use the xfce panel it works fine with either screen.
So now I only have the menu on the other screen issue for now, so if I can at least fix this, that would be great!
Did you try setting margins for the screen as I suggested? You can do that in xfce AFAIR.

I setup margins but they dont seem to make a difference. IF I set a left margin with xfce that makes my window not go all the way to the left of the screen (my windows go perfectly to the edge) , but I still have the menu settings on the other screen, even if I move the window almost all the way to the right. Also the task bar is larger on one monitor vs the other with a gap above it before lining up to any open maximized window.

Maybe I need to adjust these settings with xrandr ?

Edit: I think this might be related to the xfce panel since when I close it, all windows will go to the bottom of the screen.

Last edited by banshee28 (2009-05-09 03:26:47)

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