On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 12:52 +0100, Valent Turkovic 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. > > Thank you in advance, > Valent. I have exactly the same situation, I have a xrandr command I start from my session that sets up the dual screen thing: xrandr --output VGA --right-of LVDS to shutdown the LCD: xrandr --output LVDS off See xrandr --help for more fun Simo. -- | Simo S Sorce | | Sr.Soft.Eng. | | Red Hat, Inc | | New York, NY | -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
