Hi, I am having trouble getting my multi-monitor setup running properly using the proprietary AMD drivers in Debian testing using XRandR. My hardware is an HP Compaw 615 Laptop, with a Radeon HD 3200 graphics card. I am using KDE 4.6.5. I want the external screen, if it is connected, to be to the right of my internal laptop screen, both using their native resolution. I quickly found out that no GUI will be of any help here... I ended up editing the xorg.conf to force the resolution of my internal monitor to the native one, to prevent X.org from automatically choosing a lower resolution that's also supported by the external screen (since it defaults to cloning). I also had to increase the size of the virtual desktop. Finally, to get the screen setup I want, I added some commands to /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup to detect whether a monitor is connected and do the actual setup using xrandr. You can find both configuration files attached. However, when I plug in the screen after logging in, (of course) I manually have to execute xrandr again to enable the external monitor. Is there a way to call a shell script on monitor connect/disconnect events where I can then set up everything the way I want to? Also, I wonder if there is no better way to specify a default setup that's not "clone same image on all screens". I tried to add the external monitor to the xorg.conf (fearing trouble for the case where it is not connected), and added the "RightOf" option, but both monitors would still use the same (non-native) resolution. And I absolutely do not want to hard-code the resolution of the external monitor since there are several monitors I connect to, with different resolutions. Kind regards, Ralf
Section "Device" Identifier "Radeon HD 3200 Graphics" Driver "fglrx" Option "Monitor-LVDS" "LVDS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "LVDS" Option "PreferredMode" "1366x768" Option "Primary" "true" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "The One And Only Screen" Monitor "LVDS" Device "Radeon HD 3200 Graphics" SubSection "Display" # Necessary to make dual-view work Virtual 3000 3000 EndSubSection EndSection
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