Re: external monitor?

[Maggie Dusnic <maggie@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

Hannu Virtanen wrote:

Hi,

thank you a lot for your post.

I spent quite a long time already yesterday
with that wiki text. But it didn't help much.

Where should you put that

"xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768 --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --left-of LVDS"

?

In "xorg.conf file" or?


the output of xrandr -q in my system:

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~$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1680 x 1200
VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 306mm x 230mm
   1680x1050      60.0 
   1600x1024      60.0 
   1400x1050      60.0 
   1280x1024      59.9     60.0 
   1440x900       60.2 
   1280x960       60.0 
   1280x800       60.0 
   1152x864       75.0 
   1280x768       60.0 
   1152x768       54.8 
   1024x768       84.9     85.0     75.1     75.0     70.1     60.0*
   832x624        74.6 
   800x600        84.9     85.1     72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2 
   640x480        85.0     75.0     72.8     75.0     60.0     59.9 
   720x400        85.0     70.1 
   640x400        85.1 
   640x350        85.1     70.1 
LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm
   1024x768       60.0*+
   800x600        60.3 
   640x480        59.9 
S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
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What is your advice, what do with that?

- hv
 


--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Maggie Dusnic <maggie@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:

xrandr does work on Lenny. We've got two laptops using it with no problems. Studying http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 was really helpful, particularly understanding the 2048x2048 concept in the Virtual screen section.  With xrandr you keep your xorg.conf file to a minimum.

Obviously your mileage may vary but if it's any help, my xrandr command is:

$ xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768 --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --left-of LVDS.

I had to change VGA to VGA-0. You can find your own display types with:

$ xrandr -q

That's it, although in Xfce I have to log out and then back in again to get the extra widths showing in the desktop workspaces.

Hope it helps

Maggie

Here's an extract from my xorg.conf:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
#       DefaultDepth    24
  SubSection "Display"
#       Depth           24
#       Modes           "1024x768"
        Virtual         2048 2048
  EndSubSection
EndSection

Then, from the command line, run:

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768 --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --left-of LVDS

Maggie