Bug 148866
| Summary: | Dual Head does not work on my Dell Lat D600 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Gabriel Matthews <gabriel> |
| Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | dduffey |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Fedora Core 4 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-08-30 06:52:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 150221 | ||
XFree86 does not exist in Fedora Core 3 > When I set my display up to use the Clone Display Feature, I choose > all the right settings that I can see.. [snip] > If I boot my > machine with the lid open and the monitor attached, I get a mirrored > image of my display on the monitor and laptop display. That is exactly what "clone" mode is. A "clone" is a "copy", or "mirror image" if you prefer, of the other display. If you are configuring the X server to use "clone mode", you are telling it "I want both displays to be mirror image clones", which is what it sounds like you are doing. This sounds like a configuration issue rather than a real bug. Please use the fedora-list or xorg mailing lists to find help reconfiguring the server for dualhead. Hope this helps. Setting status to "NOTABUG" I'm not sure that this is the issue.. if you read further down the message, you see where I describe X crashing.. I can go in and remove these changes in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and all is well again. My laptop can handle cloning the display just fine on its own.. I want it to span and give me one large desktop, and THAT is where it's crashing. If you can be satisfied with two separate desktops (not clone), I can send you my xorg.conf file. I have this setup and it works fine on the same model laptop you are using. I have never tried one big huge desktop because my monitors are different sizes and resolutions. Hey, that'd be great.. Maybe it'd help me figure out what it is that's causing it to crash. Thanks! gabriel Please update to the current xorg-x11-6.8.2 update for FC3 and indicate if that solves the problem for you or not. If the problem persists with the 6.8.2 release, please file a bug report in X.Org bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Setting status to "NEEDINFO", awaiting testing results and/or upstream bug report URL for tracking. Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major
updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users
who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the
latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download
If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest
version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org
bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg"
component.
Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new
bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the
centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that
become available for consideration in future updates.
Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE".
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I'm unsure what specific component is at fault.. However, I'm guessing XFree86.. I'm no developer for sure, so please let me know if I need to provide more info. Here is a synopsis of what happens. I have a Dell Latitude D600, BIOS Revision A15 (latest), RADEON 9000M display, 1 gig of RAM, 1.6 Pentium M cpu. I am running the most up to date version of FC3 (including the kernel that was released today, 2.6.10-1.766_FC3). When I set my display up to use the Clone Display Feature, I choose all the right settings that I can see.. I have a Dell M992 display attached to my laptop, which works perfectly in solo mode.. meaning, if I boot my machine with the lid closed and the monitor plugged in, as I am right now, I can work and function just fine. If I boot my machine with the lid open and the monitor attached, I get a mirrored image of my display on the monitor and laptop display. But I'm used to a windows machine that lets me have an expanded desktop, so I can make full use of my nice 19" monitor and get more stuff on my screen. So, when I go into the system-config-display app, set my display to use the dual head feature, problems arise. I choose the Dell M992 (or Generic 19", doesn't matter) set the screen size to a conservative 1024x768 or 1280x1024, millions of colors, and either individual desktops OR spanning desktops (which is what I want), and I get the following result. I reboot the machine.. in the rc3 init, as it's going through all the starting of services, my dual head seems to work.. I can move the mouse across the 2 displays, and it seems promising. I get to the point of 'Start HAL Daemon' and SCREEEECH my machine comes to a halt. No mouse or keyboard response, just a freeze and it's done. Can't CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a console screen, nuthin'. To recover, I have to boot with the FC3 recovery cd, and replace /etc/X11/xorg.conf with xorg.conf.backup that was created when I hit OK on the Dual Head setup. (thankfully this is created) I reboot again, and VIOLA all is well in the land of Linux. Again, I'm no developer, and an intermediate-level linux user, so I understand a little about how all this works, but not all. It seems to me that something is messed up with the X11 app and my hardware, or something, as replacing that file is all that is required to break/fix this. Let me know if you need to know any version info, or anything.. I want to help as much as I can, but I don't know right now what else I need to tell you that will help. Thanks! Gabriel Matthews Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: see description Additional info: