30 Dec
2015
30 Dec
'15
10:55 p.m.
Felix Miata wrote:
Michele Calgaro composed on 2015-12-30 20:01
(UTC+0100):
KDE3 or KDE4 are able to do as much as xrandr can do. All boils down to the
chipset, the driver and the display.
It took my couple of hours to configure mine (attached). Perhaps it could
give you some ideas.
I also added/quoted some of the sources.
Also you or OP mentioned having wheezy. I mentioned I had to upgrade to
jessie. In my opinion for wheezy you have to check which Xorg version and
intel(i915) driver version you have installed.
I replaced in the beginning of this year Dell d520 with e5440 and found out
it could not run with the Xorg version and intel driver included in wheezy.
I then had to find out that it is not possible to have both built in and
external displays with their native resolutions working. Unfortunately
although officially Dell was offering this model with nv chipset they were
not able to deliver. I think with the nv it would consume more power, cost
more but would have had better support.
Xorg suggests you try the latest version of their driver and if you can
confirm the problem - log a bug.
Perhaps Ken (OP) can test with ubuntu live cdrom or usb stick and report
back if something is different.
following up all the emails on this topic, could
you file a bug report on
bugszilla so we don't forget about it? I also remember some issues some
time ago when I used two monitors.
IMO it hasn't been made clear that there is any bug, unless it's with lack
of clear howto docs anywhere. Was KDE3 ever able to do the configuration
of multiple displays? I'm not sure even KDE4 ever was able to. This WFM at
the Xorg level, but without any laptops I'm not able to precisely
duplicate OP's hardware configuration. Before filing, better to be sure
through discussion here what the bug is, or maybe move discussion to
[trinity-devel].