"Out of range" starting Xorg on dual display

Pat Maddox pergesu at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 11:10:17 GMT 2005


I've got a dual display setup, and it had been working fine once I
finally got the config done.  They're two displays running off one
graphics card, one through the DVI output and one through the D-SUB. 
Today I had to switch the inputs that the monitors use, and it just
doesn't work anymore.  I get a message on my left display that says
"Out of range."  This isn't an Xorg or FreeBSD error, it's a message
from the displays built-in HUD.  This doesn't make any sense because
as far as Xorg is concerned, there shouldn't be any difference.  The
D-SUB display should be on the left, and the DVI one should be on the
right.  I really don't understand what could be causing a problem, but
for what it's worth, the display now connected to the D-SUB has always
been more finicky than my other display.  They're a ViewSonic vp201
(D-SUB) and Dell 2001fp (DVI).  Here's my config:


Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Dual Head"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	
	Option "Xinerama" "true"
	Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	#Load  "dri"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
	Option      "ZAxisMapping"      "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Monitor0"
	VendorName	"Vendor Name"
	ModelName	"Model Name"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier "Card0"
	Driver "nvidia"
	VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
	BoardName "NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600]"
	BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
	Screen 0
	Option "RenderAccel" "true"
	Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier "Card1"
	Driver "nvidia"
	VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
	BoardName "NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600]"
	BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
	Screen 1
	Option "RenderAccel" "true"
	Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24

	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport 0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes	"1600x1200"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen1"
	Device "Card1"
	Monitor "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24

	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport 0 0
		Depth 24
	EndSubSection
EndSection


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