Amount of voodoo depends on graphics driver. With radeons even single screen setup can be major PITA 2009/3/1 Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > A software developer gets a new HDMI monitor to connect to his laptop .. he > connects the HDMI output to the laptop .. no notification, nothing pops up > .. mmm .. he searches through the menus for something .. Screen resize n > rotate (krandrtray) looks promising ... he plays with it, it gets the 2 > monitors mirrored, but he wants to spread the desktop on them both, tens of > clicks here and there .. it's not going anywhere ... he calls the local > linux guru, which happens to be me. I play with krandr too, nothing .. I > appologize for having to use cli tricks, I open up konsole, and fire-up > xrandr, after some time to get the 11 word xrandr command just about right > ... Xrandr fails to set the display and bitches about some virtual-size > thingie .. googling reveals I need "Virtual" directive in xorg.conf .. mm .. > ok, I vim xorg.conf .. but it's not there ... ah, everything in newer fedora > should be automatic, heh, I remember. Ok .. so I need to create an xorg.conf > .. I launch system-config-display .. set the dual-head option there (how > didnt I think of that one before) .. couple of clicks .. save the config .. > oops, some "index out of range" error spits on the konsole screen and the > tool just hangs there .. no error messages that there were some errors > saving, nothing ... ick ... xorg.conf was not created! I give > system-config-display another shot .. it crashes the exact way again ... doh > .. (at this stage I should already be cursing .. but I'm not :) I launch > system-config-display one third time with --no-ui option to create some > boiler plate xorg.conf, this time it works .. I add the needed "Virtual" > thingie ... I set it to 4096x4096 .. restart X .. it fails to start > completely ... no graceful recovery :/ I reboot the box ... X doesn't start > again .. no errors .. doesn't take me back to console .. just a pretty black > blank screen! Reboot again, runlevel 3 .. tweak Virtual .. init 5 .. X > starts. I finally login .. run "xrandr" and tweak the command .. now things > start to look good again. I make the user a shell alias, tell him to type it > whenever that monitor is attached to his laptop ... end of my story! > > Does something as common as attaching an extra monitor to a laptop, require > that much voodoo ..! How would a "normal" user react ! I wont try to mention > how to resolve the problems mentioned here, since you guys know this better > than I do ... I'm not whining either, I'm simple mentioning somthing is > definitely wrong, with the hope of spurring action to make things better > > Regards > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- http://scwlab.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
