also sprach Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> [2010.03.15.1453 +0100]:
> The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at
> 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external
> monitor through the VGA port. I'm running Xorg 1.7.5, and I do
> not have an xorg.conf at all, I'm letting Xorg generate the
> configuration. When I plug in the external monitor, and run
> Display Preferences to try to set up the two displays, I get a
> popup message reading "The selected configuration for displays
> could not be applied[:] required virtual size does not fit
> available size: requested=(2680,1050), minimum=(320, 200),
> maximum=(1400, 1400)".
Does the following work?
xrandr --output VGA --mode 1280x1024 --left-of LVDS
What is the output of
xrandr --query
?
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