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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:42:52
Message-Id: 6142e6140709110030q8dc9c97m2e3fb74415d07757@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup by Allan Gottlieb
1 > Since you are describing a TV out it might be your tertiary screen.
2 > When I type xrandr with no arguments I get
3 >
4 > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1920 x 1920
5 > VGA connected 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
6 > 1920x1440 60.0
7 > 1600x1200 60.0*
8 > 1280x960 60.0
9 > LVDS connected (normal left inverted right)
10 > 1680x1050 60.0 +
11 > 1024x768 60.0
12 > 800x600 60.3
13 > 640x480 59.9
14 > TV disconnected (normal left inverted right)
15 >
16 > VGA is what I would call the "secondary" (for me it is an external
17 > monitor, I believe it is always the monitor attached via the VGA or
18 > DVI output, LVDS is the screen on the
19 > laptop. Presumably TV is the signal to drive a TV (I never used
20 > mine).
21
22 I don't know wheather the TV is secondary or tertiary, when i type
23 xrandr with no options i just get the output of my primary monitor, as
24 randr is not supported. I am not exactly sure which output i get as i
25 have no access to my box at the moment, but i will check this.
26
27 > If you type
28 >
29 > xrandr --output TV --off
30 >
31 > does it stop driving the TV? That is what the manual suggests will
32 > happen. If not than it seems the nvidia driver isn't supporting randr
33 > 1.2. Perhaps that was what was meant by "wont fix", nvidia bug.
34
35 I guess a fix for this from nvidia will take ages as usually, is
36 anybody out there who got tv-out working with the opensource driver
37 from xorg with nvidia? Or do we have to wait for nouveau, mabe it does
38 a better job!
39
40 Regards,
41
42 Daniel
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