edit - New visitors - let's make this thread a 'one-stop' for others (and resource for developers) by adding your card info and how it works or doesn't, what you did about it and tweaks for different resolutions, etc. If extended pages are added, pm me and i'll put pointers in the first post. Thanks
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Bad news, good nows,,,,, broke finger today so hard ta type right,,, bummur
Good nows, got proper extended screen working using the ubuntu idoa in earlier link from monsie
here are changes to /etc/x11/xorg,conf:
paste the following just after the line that says :
#everything past here is auto-generated by Puppy's Xorg Wizard...
edit: this line isn't aways present, in which case, just start replacing at the first line in the following.
(overwrite to end of file - except last line which is your info for reference)
and after pasting, change card details, monitor names, etc. EDIT: monitor section for old crt monitors at end of post.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Xinerama Screen"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
# Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" yup, this line goes below!
Option "Xinerama" "true"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "XkbLayout" "us" #xkeymap0
# Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #mouse0protocol
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
#Option "Emulate3Buttons"
#Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 410 260 # mm
Identifier "acer"
VendorName "ACR"
ModelName "Acer AL1916W"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30.0-82.0
VertRefresh 56.0-72.0
#UseModes "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes0"
#modes0modeline0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "asus"
#DisplaySize 520 290 # mm
VendorName "ACI"
ModelName "ASUS VH242H"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30.0-85.0
VertRefresh 55.0-71.0
#UseModes "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
Option "RightOf" "acer"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "Radeon"
Option "Monitor-VGA-0" "acer"
Option "Monitor-DVI-0" "Asus"
BusID "PCI:4:9:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "acer"
Monitor "asus"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Virtual 2048 768
Depth 16
# Modes "1024x768"
EndSubsection
EndSection
#PuppyHardwareProfile=ATI_RADEON_9200AcerAL1916W
edit Sept 30, - when running under Lupu 528, the colours went wonky and needed to be set at 24, not 16. After changing the Depth parameter above to 24, the colours got better but the larger screen (ASUS) is too light / washed out so maybe there's a way to fix that
easier to comment out than retype - It's really time for a beer!
edit - note the vga / dvi commands in device section - makes sense, since the card doesn't know the dvi-vga adaptor is there.
also note that rightof is in quote marks, not sure if required but aint gonna fool with it now!! As noted earlier, I never got 'leftof' to do anything but crash but maybe it works now - but not trying it!!
i assume i can remove all lines starting # or ## or ###?? does it matter if # is not at start of line? edit - seems so, i just did.
Here is what xorg -version says in answer to Karl's question
# xorg -version
bash: xorg: command not found
# Xorg -version
X.Org X Server 1.9.5
Release Date: 2011-03-17
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Slackware 13.37 Slackware Linux Project
Current Operating System: Linux puppypc12547 3.1.10-slacko_4gA #1 SMP Tue Mar 13 14:58:11 EST 2012 i686
Kernel command line: video=640x480 initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
Build Date: 18 March 2011 12:08:03AM
Current version of pixman: 0.20.2
Before reporting problems, check
http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
#
i didn't got into tho grep stuff as i was hoping to avoid anything non-noob which thankfully worked out, Thanks a bailout for all your holp and monsie and maarten256 from ubuntuforum,org too, i bottor not count chickons befor hatching so better go now to save everything,
edit - reboot, restart completed, still working, i'll go above and take out commented lines mostly but leave a few so noobs see what's not needed.
PS. I'll attach the working log file in case it is useful.
Thanks again
Choors!
EDIT JAN 2013: Am fooling around with 2nd setup using old monitors in a different section of the house. One monitor is an old CRT type. Here is the section that handles that ok. You'll notice an easier protocol for naming monitors which needs the rest to be changed accordingly.
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 410 260 # mm
Identifier "monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 35-81
VertRefresh 59-76
#UseModes "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
EndSection
If Monsie happens to catch this, I'm having hardware problems so i've hand to shelve getting a new / old pc to support dual monitors until i find a cheap box that will run it in both windows and puppy. The old P3 couldn't handle the nvidia card so i took it out and gave up. Back as situation develops. [/quote]
[color=orange]1. Dell Dimension E521, AMD Athln 64, 2 GHz 1.93GB ram,
Puppy 533 on CD, accesses flash drive only,
FFox Nightly12.0
2. Compaq P3 733Hz 375RAM
Printer: Oki C3400 > LAN [/color]