Re: xorg.conf vedio card question........

chun lee wrote:

Hi there:

Thanks for your reply. Please see below for my reply.

The reason for this post is that I am trying to figure out why my dual head
is not working. I have started another thread to describe the problems I
have encountered. But I would still like to know more about xorg.conf stuff.

I am still pretty new to this, from what I can tell, I think its correct.
Below is what I have

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "single head configuration"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

OK, Your single head Layout uses Screen0

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Videocard0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth     16
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
        Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Your Screen0 uses Videocard0 and Monitor0.  So far so good.

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Toshiba TOS5082"
    DisplaySize  240    180
    HorizSync    31.0 - 48.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
    Option        "dpms"
EndSection

Your Monitor0 contains good info.

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "trident"
    VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
    BoardName   "Trident CyberBlade (generic)"
EndSection

An we've seen this before.

I don't know, I haven't read the trident documentation, but are you sure
that "CyberBlade(generic)" and "CyberBlase Ail" are different drivers or
just different names for the same driver that differentiates between the
two boards when the server starts up?

Could you tell me where I can find the documentation?

To begin with, you should have the xorg-x11-doc RPM installed. There's lots of good information in there. Also, historically, there is more documentation that can be found in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards (which is a symbolic link these days to a file provided by the hwconf RPM). You should have a look around the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 directory (and its subdirectories) in any event for interesting files to read.

Many thanks

Not a problem....

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