Re: using a beamer: resolution?
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Bill Marcum wrote:
> 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>
That's an idea. But is there no way of 'just pressing some keys and then
it works?' Or: if you detect the resolution of the external monitor,
please change the viewport accordingly?
David
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