Excerpts from Michal Suchanek's message of Sat Sep 12 01:36:30 -0700 2009: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel > Version: 2:2.8.1-1 > Severity: normal > File: video-intel > > When I have both VGA and LVDS connected I get the > largest resolution both support: 640x480. Yes, that's the current logic in the X server currently for choosing the default mode for multiple outputs, (find the largest mode supported natively by all outputs). And as you've seen, this is far from ideal. It would be much better to do as you suggest and choose the preferred modes for each output, but with blank portions on some edges if the preferred mode of one output is larger than that of the other (in one or more dimensions). This is definitely an upsteam issue, and not specific to the intel driver itself. I've talked about implementing something like this at some point, but I'm not sure if we have an upstream bug report open to track the issue or not. -Carl
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature