fc13 intel graphics, dual head problem

William John Murray bill.murray at stfc.ac.uk
Wed May 26 13:52:50 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:20 +0200, William John Murray wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 09:23 +0200, William John Murray wrote:
> > vga1  Hello there,
> >            I am having a problem with a dual-head setup in FC13. It
> > worked until a few days ago:
> >   * intel 82Q35 graphics, i915 controller
> >   * SAMSUNG syncmaster 743 and HP LP1965 displays, both 1280x1024.
> > 
> > The problem is that the Samsung is fine by itself but with the HP (DVI1)
> > connected too then the Samsung (VGA1) is not recognised and I cannot set
> > resolution above 1024x768.
> > 
> > xorg.0.conf has very little feedback - just lists Modelines for
> > 1024x768 to 640x480. As I said, disconnecting the HP allows it to find
> > 1280x1024 on the Samsung - and all the model information etc. That is
> > simply missing when both are connected.
> > 
> >    Any ideas please?
> >   Thanks,
> >       Bill
> > 
> > 
There is no xorg.conf. Maybe I should make one and force something in?
Here is the xrandr output:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2048 x 1280, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
0mm x 0mm
   1024x768       60.0* 
   800x600        60.3     56.2  
   848x480        60.0  
   640x480        59.9  
DVI1 connected 1024x1280+1024+0 left (normal left inverted right x axis
y axis) 380mm x 300mm
   1280x1024      60.0 +   75.0* 
   1152x864       75.0  
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  


  Bill

-- 
Bill Murray                     ----                       ATLAS
STFC RAL at: Bat 161 1-14, CERN, 1211 Meyrin, Geneve 23, Switzerland  
     Tel:- CERN +41 22 7673028    or  RAL +44 (0)1235 446256
-- 
Scanned by iCritical.


More information about the users mailing list