[Savage40] Dual Head on T23?
Philip Mucci
mucci at cs.utk.edu
Thu May 5 10:52:26 PDT 2005
Hi Albert,
I never responded to this, been away in India/Nepal for a bit...
I think your solution is pretty darn cool, but I needed a way to do this
without rebooting as I take my laptop from home to work. I ended up
making another "ServerLayout" line and now I start X by hand with
either:
startx -- -layout "Laptop"
or just startx.
It sure would be nice if I could get GDM to do this automagically, by
detecting something on the external VGA port. (I don't know how DDC
detection works but it should be possible...) Anyways, this seems to
work ok for now.
BTW, Alex, just a note on the old 'black screen after closing X using
multihead' issue on the supersavage. yes, it does appear to be a BIOS
issue as if I type 's3switch lcd' to the command line, my display comes
back. I imagine this is a trivial fix?
Ok, thanks all.
phil
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:53 +0200, Albert.deJongh at sanlam.co.za wrote:
> Philip,
>
> I am using a slightly unsavory solution for picking dual / single head.
> I've got two xorg.conf files in /etc/X11 - xorg.conf.single xorg.conf.dual
> Then I added an entry in my grub.conf (bootloader) for dualhead - it has
> an extra parameter that is passed to the kernel - "dualhead".
>
> I also create a script that runs in /etc/init.d - xheadconfig (posted
> below).
> This script checks /proc/cmdline to see if I specified dualhead and then
> selects
> the correct x setup. As I said - a bit unsavory, but its better than
> logging in as
> root and selecting your setup by hand...
>
> What do you think?
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # xheadconfig This shell script links the correct xorg.conf file
> # depending on the kernel parameters passed.
> #
> # Author: Albert de Jongh
> #
> # chkconfig: 345 50 01
> #
> # description: Links correct xorg.conf file
> # processname:
> # config:
> #
>
> # source function library
> . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
>
> RETVAL=0
>
> start() {
> # first check if xorg.conf is a symbolic link
> # I would not want to clobber my real xorg.conf file!
> if [ ! -h /etc/X11/xorg.conf ]; then
> echo "xorg.conf is not a link - will not do anything"
> exit 1
> fi
>
> # now see if the single or dualhead setups are available
> if [ ! -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf.single ] || [ ! -f
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.dualhead ]; then
> echo "One of the single / dual head setup files is
> missing."
> exit 1
> fi
>
> # figure out from kernel parameters what we have to do!
> cmdline=$(cat /proc/cmdline)
> if strstr "$cmdline" dualhead; then
> cd /etc/X11/
> ln -f -s xorg.conf.dualhead xorg.conf
> else
> cd /etc/X11/
> ln -f -s xorg.conf.single xorg.conf
> fi
>
> }
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> start
> ;;
> stop)
> ;;
> restart)
> ;;
> reload)
> ;;
> condrestart)
> ;;
> status)
> ;;
> *)
> echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload|condrestart}"
> exit 1
> esac
>
> exit $RETVAL
>
>
>
>
> // Office: +27 21 9476619
> // Email: albert.dejongh at sanlam.co.za
> // Always use protection. Browse with Firefox. http://getfirefox.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Philip Mucci <mucci at cs.utk.edu>
> 2005/03/14 04:00 PM
>
>
> To: Albert.deJongh at sanlam.co.za
> cc: Alex Deucher <agd5f at yahoo.com>, savage40 at probo.com
> Subject: Re: [Savage40] Dual Head on T23?
>
>
> HI Albert, Alex, Tim and the gang,
>
> So I've been happily using dual head now for 2 weeks. Everything's
> stable. Thanks for this, it has improved my productivity greatly.
>
> Now for remaining issues, I hope this helps. Feel free to use me to test
> suggestions...I'll do what I can. BTW, I've confirmed both of these with
> Albert (another T23 dual head user).
>
> 1) glxgears is black on Screen 1 (with or without no ScreentoScreen XAA)
>
> 2) exiting dual head leaves both monitors powered off. Fn-F7 required to
> power on the main LCD again.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Phil
>
> P.S. Anyone know if there's a wrapper out there that uses X --probeonly
> or something to see if there's actually another 'head' attached and then
> start the server with the appropriate 'layout'? When I took my laptop
> home this weekend, I had windows in never-never land...and the damn
> gnome-window applet's are sooo broken.
>
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 13:51 +0200, Albert.deJongh at sanlam.co.za wrote:
> > Nah - it's black on screen 1. I don't worry so much about DRI on the
> > multihead as I only use it
> > at work. The singlehead setup does work with DRI. So in fact - my
> > results are the same as you.
> >
> >
> > // Office: +27 21 9476619
> > // Email: albert.dejongh at sanlam.co.za
> > // Always use protection. Browse with Firefox. http://getfirefox.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Philip Mucci <mucci at cs.utk.edu>
> > 2005/03/08 12:40 PM
> >
> >
> > To: Albert.deJongh at sanlam.co.za
> > cc:
> > Subject: Re: [Savage40] Dual Head on T23?
> >
> >
> > Hi Albert,
> >
> > Does glxgears work for you on Screen 1?
> >
> > It works for me on Screen 0.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 09:39 +0200, Albert.deJongh at sanlam.co.za wrote:
> > > <sorry about previous half-pos. lotus notes malfunction :-( >
> > >
> > > I've got dualhead working with a T23. I used a binary snapshot driver
>
> > > (20050208) -
> > > installing the common and savage bits. I am running Fedora Core 3,
> > kernel
> > > 2.6.10-1.760_FC3.
> > >
> > > The important bits of my xorg.conf:
> > >
> > > Section "ServerLayout"
> > > Identifier "Default Layout"
> > > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> > > Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
> > > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > > Option "xinerama"
> > > InputDevice "Mouse0" "SendCoreEvents"
> > > InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> > > Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Module"
> > > Load "dbe"
> > > Load "extmod"
> > > Load "fbdevhw"
> > > Load "glx"
> > > Load "record"
> > > Load "freetype"
> > > Load "type1"
> > > Load "dri"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Monitor"
> > > Identifier "Monitor0"
> > > VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> > > ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"
> > > HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
> > > VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
> > > Option "dpms"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Monitor"
> > > Identifier "Monitor1"
> > > HorizSync 30-96
> > > VertRefresh 50-160
> > > Option "dpms"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Device"
> > > Identifier "savage0"
> > > Driver "savage"
> > > VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> > > BoardName "S3 Savage/IX"
> > > Screen 0
> > > Option "AGPMode" "4"
> > > BusID "1:0:0"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Device"
> > > Identifier "savage1"
> > > Driver "savage"
> > > VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> > > BoardName "S3 Savage/IX"
> > > Screen 1
> > > Option "hwcursor" "false"
> > > BusID "1:0:0"
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Screen"
> > > Identifier "Screen0"
> > > Device "savage0"
> > > Monitor "Monitor0"
> > > DefaultDepth 16
> > > SubSection "Display"
> > > Depth 16
> > > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > > EndSubSection
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Screen"
> > > Identifier "Screen1"
> > > Device "savage1"
> > > Monitor "Monitor1"
> > > DefaultDepth 16
> > > SubSection "Display"
> > > Depth 16
> > > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> > > EndSubSection
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "DRI"
> > > Group 0
> > > Mode 0666
> > > EndSection
> > >
> > >
> > > Let me know if you've got problems!
> > >
> > > Albert
> > >
> > >
> > > // Office: +27 21 9476619
> > > // Email: albert.dejongh at sanlam.co.za
> > > // Always use protection. Browse with Firefox. http://getfirefox.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Philip Mucci <mucci at cs.utk.edu>
> > > Sent by: savage40-bounces at probo.com
> > > 2005/03/03 07:52 PM
> > >
> > >
> > > To: savage40 at probo.com
> > > cc:
> > > Subject: [Savage40] Dual Head on T23?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Has anyone ever gotten dual head to work on Thinkpad T23/Linux (any X
> > > version)?
> > >
> > > I would settle for lower res/less colors if I could have this feature.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any experience?
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > >
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