So very very close to getting multiple monitors working with ATI big

[Mrdzone]

Ok, here's the deal. Laptop needs to be at 1440x900 secondary monitor full 1080 (1920x1080)

FGLRX ubuntu Jaunty Compiz Fusion

After days of dickering I finally have it so I have both monitors up, with the laptop at 1440x900 and the external at 1920x1080 in one "big desktop"

I can move windows between them, when I maximize windows they maximize to only 1 display etc... life is ALMOST good.

Final issue: the 1440x900 display is in "virutal land (tm) ) 1080 high so the bottom gets cut off. Now since the windows maximize correctly I really wouldn't care much about this EXCEPT that my dock is inaccesible. What I'd like is how it is on windows (gasp) the monitor's both run at native resolutions and when moving from one to the other it JUST WORKS.

Xorg.conf is below, let me know if you have any ideas.

Thanks

-Bob

Posted July 29, 2009 03:59 Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete Message
Ok, here's the deal. Laptop needs to be at 1440x900 secondary monitor full 1080 (1920x1080)

FGLRX ubuntu Jaunty Compiz Fusion

After days of dickering I finally have it so I have both monitors up, with the laptop at 1440x900 and the external at 1920x1080 in one "big desktop"

I can move windows between them, when I maximize windows they maximize to only 1 display etc... life is ALMOST good.

Final issue: the 1440x900 display is in "virutal land (tm) ) 1080 high so the bottom gets cut off. Now since the windows maximize correctly I really wouldn't care much about this EXCEPT that my dock is inaccesible. What I'd like is how it is on windows (gasp) the monitor's both run at native resolutions and when moving from one to the other it JUST WORKS.

Xorg.conf is below, let me know if you have any ideas.

Thanks

-Bob



# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "EnableRandR12" "false"
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal"
Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "1"
Option "Mode2" "1920x1080"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "EnableMonitor" "lvds,crt1"
Option "ForceMonitor" "lvds,crt1"
Option "PairModes" "1440x900+1920x1080"
# BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 1920 1080
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1920x1080"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 1440 900
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1920x1080"
EndSubSection
EndSection

 

[xSauronx]

i tried doing this for a while with the same situation on my T60. what I ended up doing was setting both to 1080P and the smaller monitor just scrolled around as i moved a mouse/window

i tried to get my Eee, which will support higher res outputs, to do what youre doing and its screws up window management, so i gave up. *shrug* probably not that helpful, i just wasnt able to find a better way to do it.