Bug 146751 – Can't set different resolution on internal and external screen

Bug 146751 - Can't set different resolution on internal and external screen

Summary:	Can't set different resolution on internal and external screen

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2005-02-01 05:08 EST by David Juran
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-03-07 15:28:20 EST
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Description David Juran 2005-02-01 05:08:42 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3)
Gecko/20050104 Red Hat/1.4.3-3.0.7

Description of problem:
I have a laptop Dell D600 which has a 1400x1050 LCD display. Now this
display _needs_ to have the reslution set to 1400x1050, if I try to
alter it with CTRL-ALT-+ or xrandr the displat goes black. Now this
isn't a major problem until I connect the laptop to a projector. Since
the projector can't handle resolutions higher then 1280x1024
(otherwise it goes black and complains about beeing out of sync) I end
up with having to use _either_ the built in LCD panel or the projector.
To remedy this I tried to set up different resolutions on the external
and internal port, but with little success. My Xfree86Conf is attached.
The graphics adapter in the laptop is a 

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf
[FireGL 9000] (rev 02)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
XFree86-4.3.0-78.EL

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attach a projector that can't handle 1400x1050 resolution.
2. Note how you can't see the image on both the projector and LCD
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 David Juran 2005-02-01 05:11:14 EST

Created attachment 110493 [details]
XF86Config

Comment 8 Mike A. Harris 2005-03-07 15:24:21 EST

I've reviewed this bug report and done some preliminary investigation
which seems to indicate that this problem appears to be a
configuration issue rather than a bug in the X server or video
driver.

In order to configure the server to do what you want, you will need
to edit the X server config file by hand and change some options,
which are describe on the "radeon" driver manpage.  You may need
to experiment with different options until you find a setup that
meets your specific requirements.

If you require assistance configuring the server, please contact
Red Hat Global Support Services directly at 1-888-RED-HAT1 for
technical support, and mention this bug report to the
support representative.

Comment 9 Mike A. Harris 2005-03-07 15:28:20 EST

Setting status to "NOTABUG" as per above assessment.

Comment 10 David Juran 2005-04-01 07:54:37 EST

In deed it was an configuration issue.
Adding the line
Option "CloneMode" "1280x1024"
to the "device" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config solved the problem

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