Dual monitor intel card on fedora 11

[MarksCorner]

Hello
I have a Toshiba laptop that I am tring to get the "S-Video" jack to work so I can watch movies on my tv.
This all worked out of the box on Fedora 9 and 10 I didnt need to do anything but plug it in.
I upgraded(fresh install) of Fedora 11 and ill be go to hell if I cant get the tv to work. The tv works during
boot but once the x server starts the tv stays on the splash screen and the laptop continues to my login and the desktop.
I have googled the issue and found several samples of xorg.conf files that I have tried all of witch crash
the x server. There has to be an easier way of doing this I would think seems 9 and 10 it just worked
without touching anything.
I installed system-config-display and it will let me set the driver but when I try to enable dual heads it
dosent save the configuration.
My video card is an
Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
Here is my current xorg.config file# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
If I remember right my Fedora 10 didnt even have a xorg.conf file... Not 100% sure tho.

Mabee I just dont have something installed that needs be Idono.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx
Mark

[MarksCorner]

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Is there anyone that can give me a hand with this?

[MarksCorner]

Bump
Is there anyone that can give me a hand with this?
Nevermind the guys over at Ubuntu helped me get it going.
Thanx again for your support.

[ciberpiano]

Nevermind the guys over at Ubuntu helped me get it going.
Thanx again for your support.

Hi Marks, could you please provide the link where you solved this, Im having the same trouble.

Thank you.

[MarksCorner]

Hello
Here is the post that I used. Let me know if it works for you.
I dono about this forum anymore, Seems most the moderators are promoting Windows/Vista.

Anyway here is the thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=850789

And here is the post that worked for me.
I have a Lenovo T60 with Intel 945GM dual output. After several days trying to setup a working configuration file in xorg, I found another way which is easier and also more flexible. With Ubunto 8.04 you should already have xrandr support in X, so you just type (it works also as normal user)

"xrandr -q" you should get notification of detected monitors that are plugged to your computer. Mine is LVDS for the laptop display and VGA for the external monitor. then, I type

"xrandr --output VGA --auto" then I get dual screen on my external monitor, then I type

"xrandr --output VGA --left-of LVDS", then VOILA, I get extended monitor (provided that the external is on the left of my laptop".

you can disable external monitor by "xrandr --output VGA --off"

you can play around with some options to improve the situation in your case. Personally, I put those commands in a single batch file, then attached a personalized command in my Panel, so I can switch on or off the dual display on the fly (no X restart needed)

hope this helps. It took like a week for me to find the working solution.
Let me know how it worksout....

Mark

[MarksCorner]

I thought I posted the command that I use last night!

Anyway here is the actual command I use to fire up the tv display.xrandr --output TV1 --autoI just wish it was all automatic like fc 9&10 were.

Hope this helps ya
Mark

[ciberpiano]

Thank you Marks. Im gonna check if this works for me.

I've been searching around and it seems to be a problem with F11 and the new driver for my video card, I tested so many options and what you posted seems familiar to me...

I'll update this post with the results.

[MarksCorner]

Check this site out
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html