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Operating Systems Linux dual head setup for laptop in docking station Post 302258305 by osulinux on Friday 14th of November 2008 10:02:53 AM

11-14-2008

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dual head setup for laptop in docking station

I have a thinkpad laptop which I run in a docking station at work. I have two LCD monitors, unfortunately one is wide screen and the other isn't. I want to get dual head working, but have not been successful. I've verified the setup works in Windows so its not a HW issue.

Here is my latest attempt at xorg.conf:

Code:

  1 # 
  2 
  3 Section "ServerLayout"
  4     Identifier     "Default Layout"
  5     Screen         "Screen0"
  6     Screen         "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
  7     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
  8     Option         "xinerama" "on"
  9     #Option        "clone" "off"
 10 EndSection
 11 
 12 Section "InputDevice"
 13 # keyboard added by rhpxl
 14     Identifier  "Keyboard0"
 15     Driver      "kbd"
 16     Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
 17     Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
 18 EndSection
 19 
 20 Section "Device"
 21     Identifier  "Videocard0"
 22     Driver      "intel"
 23     #BusID      "PCI:00:02.0"
 24         Screen 0
 25 EndSection
 26 
 27 Section "Device"
 28     Identifier "Videocard1"
 29         Driver     "intel"
 30     #BusID     "PCI:00:02.1"
 31     Screen 1
 32 EndSection
 33 
 34 Section "Monitor"
 35     Identifier "Monitor0"
 36 EndSection
 37 
 38 Section "Monitor"
 39     Identifier "Monitor1"
 40 EndSection
 41 
 42 Section "Screen"
 43     Identifier "Screen0"
 44     Device     "Videocard0"
 45     DefaultDepth     24
 46     SubSection "Display"
 47         Viewport   0 0
 48         Depth     24
 49        # Modes "1440x900"
 50     EndSubSection
 51 EndSection
 52 
 53 Section "Screen"
 54     Identifier "Screen1"
 55     Device     "Videocard1"
 56     DefaultDepth     24
 57     SubSection "Display"
 58         Viewport   0 0
 59         Depth     24
 60        # Modes "1280x1024"
 61     EndSubSection
 62 EndSection

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laptop_mode

LAPTOP_MODE(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    LAPTOP_MODE(8)

NAME

       /usr/sbin/laptop_mode - apply laptop mode settings

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/laptop_mode [ cmd ] [ force ]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the  /usr/sbin/laptop_mode command. laptop_mode is a program that applies the settings given in the
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       porting	the  Linux  kernel's  laptop  mode  feature, /usr/sbin/laptop_mode also supports various power saving modules which are configured
       through configuration files in the /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d directory.

       It is not recommended to call /usr/sbin/laptop_mode directly to start or stop laptop mode, except in hardware event handlers. To apply  new
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COMMANDS

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SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by Bart Samwel (bart@samwel.tk) for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to
       copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later  version  published	by
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