On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:00 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:14 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: > > 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 > > One things that's not very well documented is that you need to tweak you > xorg.conf for this to work. You need to add a Virtual line to the > "Display" subsection in the "Screen" section of the xorg.conf file, for > example: > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Virtual 3600 1200 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > The exact resolution depends on the monitors you want to use, but it has > to be big enough to hold both side by side. In my case, I have > 1900x1200 and 1680x1050 monitors side by side, which gives me the > numbers above. Can that eventually be allocated dynamically or adjusted when the hotplug events come in? Because this leads to the problem where X will just plain fail to bring up the new hotplugged 27" Apple Cinema display that I just got because I need some random obscure option in the X config. Hopefully this option will just Go Away (TM) too in the next few releases? Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
