Re: using a beamer: resolution?

[fra-dl-no-spam@tourde.org (François TOURDE)]

Le 12550ième jour après Epoch,
David Fokkema écrivait:

> Hi group,
>
>>From time to time, I use a beamer on my external VGA port of my laptop.
> My laptop TFT panel has a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels but the beamer
> has a resolution of only 800x600. However, it can support 1024x768 using
> software scaling. Right now I have to edit my XF86Config-4 by hand and
> then restart my X server. The problem is that X does recognize the
> beamer on the external port and does switch back to a lower resolution,
> but the viewport stays at 1400x1050, not very handy. Does anybody know
> of an easy solution?

Don't tell us what laptop, what video card, etc.

Let us guess. It will be easier.