Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:51:25 +0300 From: Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila@iki.fi> To: mexas@bris.ac.uk Cc: tijl@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Haswell composite desktop - laptop+HDMI monitor - how? Message-ID: <CABHD1wT2Lk7C6O4akEwysV=gxiCiQ3zdCoJ5WY0zsJRuST17Yw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201603301230.u2UCU4kQ085063@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20160330131355.23d66444@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <201603301230.u2UCU4kQ085063@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> wrote: > >From tijl@freebsd.org Wed Mar 30 12:37:40 2016 > > > >On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:52:11 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht < > mexas@bris.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Using xrandr as in the handbook, Sec. 5.4.6: > >> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > >> I finally got this configuration: > >> > >> % xrandr > >> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3286 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192 > >> eDP1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > 293mm x 165mm > >> 1366x768 60.00*+ 40.00 > >> 1024x768 60.00 > >> 800x600 60.32 56.25 > >> 640x480 59.94 > >> HDMI1 connected 1920x1080+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 509mm x 286mm > >> 1920x1080 60.00*+ 50.00 > >> 1920x1080i 60.00 50.00 > >> 1600x900 59.98 > >> 1280x1024 75.02 60.02 > >> 1152x864 75.00 > >> 1280x720 60.00 50.00 > >> 1440x576i 50.00 > >> 1024x768 75.08 60.00 > >> 1440x480i 59.94 > >> 800x600 75.00 60.32 > >> 720x576 50.00 > >> 720x480 59.94 > >> 640x480 75.00 60.00 59.94 > >> 720x400 70.08 > >> DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > >> HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > >> DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis > >> % > >> > >> The problem is that only about the leftmost > >> 1/3 to 1/4 of the width of the HDMI is used. > >> No graphical window can be moved further to the right. > >> > >> Am I missing something? > >> > >> Again, this worked perfectly for me (using xorg.conf) > >> on a older laptop with nvidia driver and VGA monitor. > > > >Try specifying the virtual screen resolution in xorg.conf: > > > >Section "Screen" > > [...] > > DefaultDepth 24 > > [...] > > SubSection "Display" > > Depth 24 > > Virtual 3286 1080 > > [...] > > EndSubSection > >EndSection > > That didn't help. Although I'm not sure I follow your > instructions correctly. If I set something like this > in xorg.conf or in > /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/screen-resolution.conf > then it seems to be ignored on X startup. > Perhaps I have to include both what you wrote and > equivalents of: > > xrandr --output eDP1 --auto > xrandr --output HDMI1 --auto > xrandr --output HDMI1 --right-of eDP1 > > also in a config file? > > Also, I'm confused by xrandr reporting only screen0. > Previously, with nvidia, I had in xorg.conf screen0 > and screen1 positioned to the right of screen0. > Perhaps xrandr uses a different terminology to xorg.conf? > A good tool for testing different configurations through a GUI is this: http://www.freshports.org/x11/arandr/ It's a GUI frontend for xrandr. If xrandr doesn't see correct values from the EDID, then i think the issue is with the driver or with Xorg. Anyone else care to comment? -Tommi
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