On 16/01/2008, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > when I connect external LCD monitor to my laptop's VGA connector I get > image on both monitors with the "same" resolution - just that the one > on the laptop is cropped. > Laptop supports 1280x800 and LCD 1280x1024 so I see the same desktop > on both screens just I don't see the bottom part on laptop screen. > > I would like to have an option to do two things: > 1. to turn off the laptop screen when I'm using only the external one. > (I have vista on this laptop also but I don't use it - under vista I > can use FN+F4 to rotate video modes and in one video mode only > external LCD is on, under Fedora 8 FN+F4 does nothing) > 2. ability to switch both screens on but not in mirror mode but in > dual screen mode. > > I'm using Fedora 8 with latest updates and with intel 2.1.1 driver. > > Are there any intel utilities that make managing video setup easier? > Can you please point me to some web resources that address issues I > mentioned. > xrandr can do the first xrandr --output LVDS off there may be a way to use xrandr to do the second, but I haven't figured it out yet. There's a nice utility in development to give a nice shiny GUI for these things: http://albertomilone.com/urandr.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
