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| A Strange Laptop / Docking Station Issue? |
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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:38:42 GMT |
Hello,
I'm having a strange issue with the video on my Lenovo X60 tablet in its
docking station. I have an NEC wide-screen monitor connected to the
docking station running at 1400x900. The tablet screen is currently
closed, because I could never get the dual-screen working correctly. Now
it appears that my issues continue.
So the problem. My X seems to have two overlapping "sessions" (I
can't
think of a better term). My normal 1400x900, along with another session
running at 1024x768. I generally don't notice that this is happening.
However, when I maximize a window, it will only maximize to the 1024x768
window. Additionally, I had to set my cube to "On[sic] big cube" for
the
"Multi Output Mode". Finally, when I use the magnifier tool, I can
magnify each "session independently. However, I can only access the
bottom and right sides of the larger 1400x900 session.
I figure people will want to see my xorg.conf, but I can't see anything
in there that looks out of the ordinary.
Hopefully someone has seen this before. I have tried searching around,
but have been having a hard time describing what is happening in order to
narrow down the search.
My xorg.conf file follows (I removed the content of the long "files"
section) :
# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2008-04-10T13:37:20-0500.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-
users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 408 255
HorizSync 30-81
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "NEC LCD193WXM"
Option "DPMS"
VendorName "NEC"
VertRefresh 43-76
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1024x768" 83.00 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772 803
Modeline "1024x768" 76.89 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772 800
Modeline "1024x768" 70.50 1024 1072 1104 1184 768 771 775 796
+HSync -VSync
Modeline "1024x768" 70.07 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 798
Modeline "1024x768" 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795
Modeline "800x600" 50.32 800 840 928 1056 600 601 604 627
Modeline "800x600" 45.93 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 625
Modeline "800x600" 44.75 800 848 880 960 600 603 607 622 +HSync -
VSync
Modeline "800x600" 42.33 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 623
Modeline "800x600" 38.22 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 622
Modeline "1440x900" 106.00 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934
EndSection
Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection
Section "Device"
BoardName "945 GM"
BusID "0:2:0"
Driver "intel"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Option "monitor-VGA" "Monitor[0]"
Option "usevnc" "no"
VendorName "Intel"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
EndSection
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Timothy M. Musa
Community Consolidated School District 93
Carol Stream, IL
http://www.ccsd93.com/
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| Re: A Strange Laptop / Docking Station Issue? |
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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:24:22 GMT |
Tim Musa <musat_@_ccsd93.com> wrote:
> I'm having a strange issue with the video on my Lenovo X60 tablet in its
> docking station. I have an NEC wide-screen monitor connected to the
> docking station running at 1400x900. The tablet screen is currently
> closed, because I could never get the dual-screen working correctly.
While the tablet screen is physically closed, it looks like it is still
considered as an available output screen by the display logic.
> So the problem. My X seems to have two overlapping "sessions" (I
can't
> think of a better term). My normal 1400x900, along with another session
> running at 1024x768.
The "xrandr" command may be able to provide you with details and with
a way
to turn off the tablet screen at the logical level, which could improve
things.
HTH,
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Ray Dassen
Technical Support Engineer, EMEA Services Center, Novell Technical Services
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| Re: A Strange Laptop / Docking Station Issue? |
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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:36:52 GMT |
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:24:22 +0000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
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> The "xrandr" command may be able to provide you with details and
with a
> way to turn off the tablet screen at the logical level, which could
> improve things.
>
> HTH,
Thanks, I'll look at that. I did, just now, find a setting in Compiz in
"General / Display Settings / Overlapping Output Handling". When set
to
"Prefer larger output" everything seems to work as I would expect.
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Timothy M. Musa
Community Consolidated School District 93
Carol Stream, IL
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