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Re: Full clone alubook ==> VGA [was Re: Plug and Play for external monitors on latest alubooks?]



On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:11:37PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 05:19:00PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 16:24 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have another problem now: I can clone my alubook5,8 KDE-screen (not
> > > the console, I'm sorry) 
> > 
> > Yeah, radeonfb doesn't support multiple outputs yet.
> > 
> > 
> > > need to move the mouse on the alubook to see the rest of the alu
> > > screen on the VGA: Is the only available solution for that to scale
> > > down the aluscreen from currently 1440x960 to, e.g., 1024x768?
> > 
> > You can't scale it down, you'll have to set the virtual resolution to
> > 1024x768, e.g. using xrandr. Of course, this requires setting up an
> > appropriate MetaMode in xorg.conf as well.
> 
> This seems to work now, with a 1:1 picture of alubook:VGA:
> 

Oops, I forgot this little important part: I connected the VGA monitor
to the alubook via the DVI connector on the alubook, using the adapter
that was shipped with the alubook5,8.

Thanks again to everyone out there

Wolfgang

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