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From: Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual screen display, one is offset
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:22:34
Message-Id: 44E92606.9080905@electronsweatshop.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Dual screen display, one is offset by Daniel D Jones
1 Might sound kind of silly - but did you make sure that the left
2 monitor's horizontal alignment is properly set?
3
4 R
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6 Daniel D Jones wrote:
7 > I have two Dell LCD widescreen displays (one's a 2005WFP, the other is a newly
8 > purchased 2007WFP) that I've just configured for dual screen display. I'm
9 > running an ATI videocard and using the fglrx driver. The monitor on the
10 > right is using the DVI interface, while the screen on the left is using the
11 > SVGA interface. I've gotten everything working except for the fact that the
12 > left screen is shifted to the right. That is, there's a large black stripe
13 > down the left side of the display which I cannot move the mouse into, and
14 > there's an equal sized chunk missing off the right side (which is the middle
15 > of the wide screen display). It's like the left half of the display is
16 > shifted about 20% to the right. This was my primary display until I got the
17 > second monitor today, and it did not display the offset problem when it was
18 > configured for a single display. Here's my xorg.conf file:
19 >
20 > Section "ServerLayout"
21 > Identifier "Default Layout"
22 > Screen 0 "aticonfig Screen 0" 0 0
23 > InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
24 > InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
25 > EndSection
26 >
27 > Section "Files"
28 > FontPath "unix/:7100"
29 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
30 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
31 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
32 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
33 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/afms"
34 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
35 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
36 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
37 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default"
38 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/dejavu"
39 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/encodings"
40 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/fonts.cache-1"
41 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
42 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
43 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
44 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
45 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
46 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
47 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ukr"
48 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/util"
49 > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
50 > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
51 > EndSection
52 >
53 > Section "Module"
54 > Load "GLcore"
55 > Load "bitmap"
56 > Load "dbe"
57 > Load "ddc"
58 > Load "dri"
59 > Load "extmod"
60 > Load "freetype"
61 > Load "glx"
62 > Load "int10"
63 > Load "record"
64 > Load "speedo"
65 > Load "type1"
66 > Load "v4l"
67 > Load "vbe"
68 > Load "xtt"
69 > EndSection
70 >
71 > Section "InputDevice"
72 > Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
73 > Driver "kbd"
74 > Option "CoreKeyboard"
75 > Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
76 > Option "XkbLayout" "us"
77 > EndSection
78 >
79 > Section "InputDevice"
80 > Identifier "Configured Mouse"
81 > Driver "mouse"
82 > Option "CorePointer"
83 > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
84 > Option "Protocol" "auto"
85 > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
86 > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
87 > EndSection
88 >
89 > Section "Monitor"
90 > Identifier "aticonfig Monitor 0"
91 > Option "DPMS"
92 > EndSection
93 >
94 > Section "Monitor"
95 > Identifier "aticonfig Monitor 1"
96 > Option "DPMS"
97 > EndSection
98 >
99 > Section "Device"
100 > Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9000 Pro (RV250 If)"
101 > Driver "ati"
102 > BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
103 > EndSection
104 >
105 > Section "Device"
106 > Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
107 > Driver "fglrx"
108 > Option "(null)"
109 > Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000201"
110 > Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "on"
111 > BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
112 > EndSection
113 >
114 > Section "Device"
115 > Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter 1"
116 > Driver "fglrx"
117 > BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
118 > Screen 1
119 > EndSection
120 >
121 > Section "Screen"
122 > Identifier "aticonfig Screen 0"
123 > Device "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
124 > Monitor "aticonfig Monitor 0"
125 > DefaultDepth 24
126 > SubSection "Display"
127 > Viewport 0 0
128 > Depth 24
129 > Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
130 > EndSubSection
131 > EndSection
132 >
133 > Section "Screen"
134 > Identifier "aticonfig Screen 1"
135 > Device "ATI Graphics Adapter 1"
136 > Monitor "aticonfig Monitor 1"
137 > DefaultDepth 24
138 > SubSection "Display"
139 > Viewport 0 0
140 > Depth 24
141 > Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024"
142 > EndSubSection
143 > EndSection
144 >
145 > Section "DRI"
146 > Mode 0666
147 > EndSection
148 >
149
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