Re: different resolution on notebook LCD and VGA

[Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>]

Unless your notebook actually has two display adapters built in,
I very much doubt that you can do what you describe.

The only options I have seen are
a. image displayed on LCD only
b. higher resolution image displayed on VGA only
c. simultaneous display on LCD and VGA at internal LCD resolution

Were you expecting to see the same or different things on the
internal and external display? If the same, how were you
thinking the lower resolution LCD would display what is on
the higher res screen?

If you were expecting to have different images on the internal
and external displays, then that would qualify as a dual head
display - which would require specialised hardware which I havn't
seen in a notebook.  

Regards,
DigbyT

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:10:58AM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi guys,
> 
> maybe this is nonsense... is it possible to run x windows with 
> different resolution on the notebook LCD and different on the VGA out at 
> the same time? ideally i'd like to have the output 1024x768 on the LCD 
> and 1280x1024 sent to the VGA output (i want to connect it to another 
> LCD that has this resolution - 1024x768 indeed looks ugly on it...)
> 
> thanks for any hints. regards,
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