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Re: [OT] Re: Changing screens



On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:55:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 13:56:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:38:25PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> > > Dear all
> > > 
> > > I've got a laptop (Apple PowerBook G4) that I use both at home and on 
> > > the road (with Debian Etch installed). At home, the laptop is connected 
> > > to an external screen, with the laptop closed (so, at home, I don't use 
> > > the laptops own screen). The two screens have different resolutions 
> > > (laptop screen: 1440 x 1024, external screen at home: 1280 x 1024).
> > > 
> > > The problem is that Debian uses the same screen resolution for both 
> > > screens, wich I find annoying (it uses 1440 x 1024, which means that the 
> > > image is larger than what fits on my external screen). How can I make 
> > > Debain use the appropriate screen size? Do I have to set it manually or 
> > > is there a way to adjust the screen size automatically?
> > > 
> > 
> > If there is some surefire way to tell which monitor is connected, then
> > it should be a simple matter to restart X with a script that checks
> > which monitor you're using and points to the appropriate xorg.conf
> > (or even changes the file directly (not recommened)). 
> 
> Something like
> 
> ddcprobe | egrep 'eisa|serial'

cool. thanks Florian

A

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