Re: getting wireless and dvi out (clone mode) to work on iBook G4 - help needed, plz

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>]

Hello P,

P Kapat <kap4lin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 09:55 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> > Note that hotplugging a monitor per se isn't expected to have any direct
>> > effect; something like
>> >
>> > xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto
>
> I don't actually need to do this, but if I do (note for my case: the
> output is VGA-0 instead of DVI-0: "xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto"), I
> get a higer resolution (1280x1024) external monitor display; where my
> iBook's LCD is 1024x768 max. This projects the iBook's LCD screen to
> the 1024x768 block on the upper-left corner of the 1280x1024 external
> monitor - resulting in empty-but-accessable strips on the right and
> bottoom edge of the external monitor. How do I get back to 1024x768
> resolution on the external display?

xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x786

Have a nice day, Jörg.
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