Ubuntu "xorg.conf" Help?

I had a go at that (thanks for the link), and I had to reconfigure XServer due to an error.

Can anyone (who is amazing at editing xorg.conf files :p) give me some things I need to do specifically as all the tutorials I have tried have seemed to fail on me. (I did get it to work [sort of] in Fedora Core 6, but that had a utility to help you, whereas I can't see one in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS).

Any help would be very, very much appreciated.

(I think it may be a problem with the BusID for each of the devices as the rest of the xorg.conf files I have done that failed have made sense.)

Angus Higgins
 
Can anyone spot an error with this xorg.conf file?

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. R350 AH [Radeon 9800 SE]"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. R350 AH [Radeon 9800 SE] (Secondary)"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "BenQ T903"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-65
VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Fujitsu Siemens B15"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-65
VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. R350 AH [Radeon 9800 SE]"
Monitor "BenQ T903"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Secondary Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. R350 AH [Radeon 9800 SE] (Secondary)"
Monitor "Fujitsu Siemens B15"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
Screen "Secondary Screen" RightOf "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "xinerama" "true"
Option "Default Layout"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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This doesn't contain mouse, and other device sections by the way.

It runs fine, but it doesn't do what it should (see my first post), all it does is clone the primary analogue (19" 1280*1024), onto what should be the secondary DVI (15" 1024*768).

Can anyone help? (I'm sure I have just missed something off).

Angus Higgins
 
Having a quick look, looks like you HorizSync and refresh are set wrong, but i dont see how that would stop it working. will have a proper look later
 
LizardKing said:
Having a quick look, looks like you HorizSync and refresh are set wrong, but i dont see how that would stop it working. will have a proper look later
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Thanks ever so much. :)

This is the only real thing stopping me using Ubuntu as my main operating system in the future. Other than this I have had no problems with it.

Angus Higgins
 
Can aynone spot why dual monitors is not working? (I mean why it is cloning and not doing dual monitors).

I'm pretty sure after I actually get the dual monitors to work I will be able to sort out the layout, i.e. get the monitors in the right places.

I'm sorry to bump this, but I really need help. :p

Could it be a problem outside of my xorg.conf file?

Angus Higgins
 
Try putting
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal"
In your device section, should change it to extended desktop rather than clone.
As for the Hsync etc looking at my own xorg.conf file there not quoted so might be worth commenting them out to use auto detection.

your running the open source drives have you tried Ati's own? it comes with a basic (and i mean basic!!) Gui to change simple settings like clone etc
 
I just sorted it out (about 30 minutes ago) using a very similar method to the one described.

Thanks for the help. :)

I am hopefully going to use Ubuntu as my main operating system now.

Angus Higgins
 
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