Re: using a beamer: resolution?

[Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com>]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:35:13PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> 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?
> 
Write a separate XF86Config file for the beamer, and start the X server with
startx -- -xf86config <filename>


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