hello all. Im having some problems getting dual monitors up and running on my laptop. I have an Inspiron 700m, and am using the i810 video driver. I have tried to use i810switch, but that only clones my LCD display onto the external CRT im using, and messes up the resolution and such, so id rather not use it. After mucking arroung with my xorg.conf for a while i have been able to get the CRT to display, but it seems that only one monitor will work at a time. If the CRT is on, the LCD is blank, and vice versa. Any ideas? heres the important stuff from my xorg.conf:
Screen 0 is the laptop LCD
Screen 1 is the external CRT, i have only one video card.
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "dual config"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "synaptics"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0a"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device"
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVMS,CRT"
Screen 0
Option "DevicePresence" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0b"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device"
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVMS,CRT"
Screen 1
Option "DevicePresence" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel"
#HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
#VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
#HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
#VertRefresh 59.0 - 75.0
Option "crt"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0a"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard0b"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
Thanks for any help or ideas/
Felix