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Getting my IBM T43 to give presentations actually took a bit of manual configuration of the xorg.conf file automatically generated by Fedora Core 5. The T43 has a screen resolution of 1400x1050 which is a bit wider than the aspect ratios found in almost all data projectors. Consequently without the following tweaks, the edges of my presentations were cut off.
After installing the proprietry ATI drivers from the http://rpm.livna.org/ web page I editted the device and screen sections of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I got this information after a google search. Unfortunately I can no longer find the webpage that give me the clues to get this right so I'm blogging this to add to the general correctness of the web :-)
The key to all this is the "clone" paramter in the device section of the file. This literally makes a clone of your laptop display so what you see is what your audience gets. (WYSIWYAG) Which Is Normally What Is Wanted :-)
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300]"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS,CRT"
Option "MergedFB" "true"
Option "DDCMode" "on"
Option "RenderAccel" "on"
Option "MetaModes" "1400×1050-1400×1050 1280×1024-1280×1024 1024×768-1024×768"
Option "CRT2Position" "Clone"
Option "CRT2HSync" "32.4-90.0"
Option "CRT2VRefresh" "60.0-100.0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Then when I make a presentation, I use randr to set the resolution to 1024x768.
There is one final trick to make it work. After pluging the external display into the laptop I have to logout and restart X.
If the lazyweb can tell me how to avoid this restart of X I'd be most appreciative :-)
Anonymous
April 27 2006, 04:19:30 UTC 6 years ago
MergedFB with free radeon drivers
I don't know about the non-free ati drivers, but on my notebook I use MergedFB to do the same thing. Something like this in your "Device" section:Option "UseFBDev" "false"
Option "MergedFB" "true"
Option "CRT2Position" "Clone"
That is what I use for presentations. For dual head, I do something like this:
Option "UseFBDev" "false"
Option "MergedFB" "true"
Option "CRT2Position" "RightOf" # this means the external monitor is to the right of my notebook
Option "MergedNonRectangular" "true" # keeps smaller screen from scrolling if viewport is smaller because of a different aspect ratio.
This all works with dri. You can see the radeon(4) manual page for more info. Unfortunately, you still have to restart X to add the second monitor. Could you use Meta-modes to do this without restarting X?
Anonymous
April 27 2006, 06:05:41 UTC 6 years ago
Anonymous
April 27 2006, 08:12:59 UTC 6 years ago
Anonymous
April 27 2006, 09:06:08 UTC 6 years ago
My "presentation" script is as follows:
#!/bin/sh
killall Xvnc
killall vncviewer
vncserver
vncviewer -shared -shared -passwd /home/jk/.vnc/passwd localhost:1 &
And my ~/.vnc/xstartup:
#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xrdb -merge - <
My "presentation" script is as follows:
#!/bin/sh
killall Xvnc
killall vncviewer
vncserver
vncviewer -shared -shared -passwd /home/jk/.vnc/passwd localhost:1 &
And my ~/.vnc/xstartup:
#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xrdb -merge - <<EOF
*desktop.translations: #override\n\
<Key>F12: ToggleFullScreen()
EOF
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
x-window-manager &
export DISPLAY=:0.1
/usr/bin/vncviewer -fullscreen -shared -passwd /home/jk/.vnc/passwd localhost:1 &
Jon Kåre
April 27 2006, 14:06:07 UTC 6 years ago
Anonymous
April 27 2006, 15:03:58 UTC 6 years ago
Automated Screen Detection
With all the work that has been put into blinging out X (which is freaking sweet, btw) I'm disappointed that we still need to fall back to editing configuration files in order to set up screens and resolution. Having X automatically detect the addition and removal of screens and their supported resolutions would make life so much easier when it comes to creating a multiscreen environment.Anonymous
April 28 2006, 17:33:42 UTC 6 years ago
got this working on dapper
While not FC5, I got something working on Dapper which may help with what you're doing. It keeps the vga-out port on all the time, so you dont have to restart X to enable it. I have no idea how this affects battery life.http://help.nceas.ucsb.edu/index.php/Ena
Anonymous
August 23 2006, 10:46:10 UTC 5 years ago
My fedora 5 can't activate add/remove hardware
I just installed fedora 5 and it ca't activate the add/remove hardware for me to do a complete installation.How can I go about that? I was also told that it is the most unstable fedora flavour of Linux