Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:53:16 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Michael Collette <Michael.Collette@testequity.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual monitor setup Message-ID: <20041230012316.GL98352@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200412291317.26537.Michael.Collette@testequity.com> References: <200412291317.26537.Michael.Collette@testequity.com>
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--HTLCc13+3hfAZ6SL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 29 December 2004 at 13:17:26 -0800, Michael Collette wrote: > Running up a brand new IBM T42 (2373-CXU) laptop here, that FreeBSD seems to > love being on. Can't say enough about how far things have come since the > first time I tried FreeBSD on a laptop. Wow! > > Anyway, down to my last configuration battle. I'm trying to get a dual > monitor setup going with this box using the built in monitor to sit along > side an external monitor. I've got this working great on a desktop machine, > and I tried it out on this laptop with Windows... just before deleting it > entirely off this hard drive. > > I found a couple of references out on the net covering this subject, but most > all of them were using the Linux ATI drivers. Tried working with what came > with xorg's drivers, but all I could seem to get was fuzziness on the > external monitor. Never got close to having X recognize both displays as a > single desktop. > > Wondering if anyone out there has had any luck with this? If so, could you > post your XF86Config? Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html, which is a little out of date. Probably, though, this won't help you much. If you've got as far as you have and it's not looking right, it'll be a more subtle problem. Basically, X -configure should work. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --HTLCc13+3hfAZ6SL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB01iEIubykFB6QiMRAoEVAJ9uYhOepZ3IuFQTvmCpcgLUhUrPMACgjz2s qDWCoLgbGCzil8K5jNNLE5w= =JGuw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HTLCc13+3hfAZ6SL--
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