twinview problem

[gil]

Hello:
After many hours of trying different things, I'm unable to get Twinview to work. The desktops are the right size, the mouse will go off of the screen to the right, but the main laptop screen will not sync or turn on.

I am on a Toshiba 1955-S805 with an external LCD panel. I am running 2.4.20 under SUSE 8.2 and the latest 4363 Nvidia driver. I have video and GL running fine on the external monitor. I'm attaching my XF86Config and log file. As will be evident from the XF86Config, I've tried many things, including 2 devices, 2 monitors and 2 screens. I've tried putting the twinview options in the screens section and the device section. My current configuration is with two screens, two monitors and one device.

Again, there is video on the external lcd monitor but none on the internal laptop lcd panel. I've tried this with and without the ConnectedMonitor option. I added the line:

options nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 NVreg_Mobile=2

to my /etc/modules.conf to get anything to work.

Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks,

-Gil

# /.../
# SaX generated XFree86 config file
# Created on: 2003-05-14.
#
# Version: 4.7
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2002
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (4.7)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS0"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS1"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS2"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS3"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS4"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS5"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS6"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS7"
InputDevices "/dev/ttyS8"
InputDevices "/dev/psaux"
InputDevices "/dev/logibm"
InputDevices "/dev/sunmouse"
InputDevices "/dev/atibm"
InputDevices "/dev/amigamouse"
InputDevices "/dev/atarimouse"
InputDevices "/dev/inportbm"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/mouse"
InputDevices "/dev/usbmouse"
InputDevices "/dev/adbmouse"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
InputDevices "/dev/input/event0"
InputDevices "/dev/pointer0"
InputDevices "/dev/pointer1"
InputDevices "/dev/pointer2"
InputDevices "/dev/pointer3"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
Option "RandR" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "v4l"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "Keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Option "MapName" "Standard Keyboard [ pc104 ]"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Device" "/dev/pointer1"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "ps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[3]"
Option "Device" "/dev/pointer0"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 30-82
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "1280X1024@70HZ"
#Option "DPMS"
VendorName "Iiyama LCD"
VertRefresh 54-70
UseModes "Modes[1]"
EndSection

#Section "Monitor"
# Option "CalcAlgorithm" "CheckDesktopGeometry"
# DisplaySize 320 240
# HorizSync 30-82
# Identifier "Monitor[1]"
# ModelName "1280X1024@70HZEXT"
# #OPTION "DPMS"
# VendorName "Toshiba LCD"
# VertRefresh 54-70
# UseModes "Modes[0]"
#EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
#Modeline "1280x1024" 102.24 1280 1296 1552 1736 1024 1024 1033 1070
Modeline "1280x1024" 119.28 1280 1296 1552 1736 1024 1024 1035 1070
#Modeline "1024x768" 61.19 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 775 802
#Modeline "1024x768" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
#Modeline "1024x768" 71.39 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 776 802
EndSection


Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[1]"
#Modeline "1280x1024" 102.24 1280 1296 1552 1736 1024 1024 1033 1070
Modeline "1280x1024" 119.28 1280 1296 1552 1736 1024 1024 1035 1070
EndSection

Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

#Section "Screen"
# DefaultDepth 16
# SubSection "Display"
# Depth 16
# Modes "1280x1024"
# EndSubSection
# Identifier "Screen[1]"
# Device "Device[0]"
# Monitor "Monitor[1]"
#EndSection

Section "Device"
BoardName "GeForce4 440 Go"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Option "HWcursor"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
#Option "CrtcNumber" "1"
#Option "CrtcNumber" "0"
Screen 0
Option "Rotate" "off"
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-82"
Option "SecondMonitorVertSync" "54-70"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024"
#Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, DFP"
#Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" "1"
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection

#Section "Device"
# BoardName "GeForce4 440 Go"
# BusID "1:0:0"
# Identifier "Device[1]"
# Driver "nvidia"
# Option "HWcursor"
# #Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
# Screen 1
# Option "Rotate" "off"
# VendorName "NVidia"
#EndSection

#Section "ServerLayout"
# Identifier "Layout[all]"
# InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
# InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
# InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"
# Option "Clone" "off"
# Option "Xinerama" "off"
# Screen "Screen[0]"
# Screen "Screen[1]" leftOf "Screen[0]"
#EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

[alien999999999]

attention: some hardware can only display 1 head at a time! just so you know... (especially nForce chipsets)

secondly, there are a lot of threads here that are about tv-out.

and lastly, YOU MUST have only 1 screen, 1 monitor, 1 device for TVOUT.

the tv-out is handled only by the device section!!!

instead use SecondMonitorHorzRefresh and SecondMonitorVertSync to control frequencies of the TV (connectedmonitors "CRT, TV" eg).

please read the README file. there's a whole section how to handle TV-OUT.

important is that you don't use xinerama. use Twinview and TwinviewOrientation. the resulting resolution MUST be the sum of both (eg: 2 times 800x600 gives 1600x600 is you are using the left orientation).

so I would advice you to read that appendix on TV-out again and again.

[gil]

I haven't tried TV-Out yet. For now, I just want a big desktop across 2 monitors.

This hardware (in fact I read that all current laptop NVidia chips) support this function under Windoze.

-Gil

[alien999999999]

it's the same thing, if you have a single device with 2 outputs, you must follow my instructions above...

[CompilerLite]

All Toshiba's since the 1955-s801 do support dual display. I have had this successfully work on the old 4191. I've have yet to have any success with the 4363 set on my toshiba yet. I get a psychedelic pink screen. I wish you luck and if you get it to work please post your XF86Config and setup process for the community to benefit. I'll post mine as soon as I figure out what is going on with my settings.