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Hi,
first of all, I have to say that this is my very first time to real use arch. I'm here to get to know arch and to learn as much as I can, so I want to create a real desktop with 2 physical screens.
The first one is connected via VGA, its best resolution is 1440x900.
The second one is connected via HDMI, its best resolution is 1600x1200
I use i3 and got the HDMI screen working, with 1600x1200. native, in using xorg with the
xf86-video-ati driver.
The right screen, my HDMI (the larger one), shows the correct resolution. The left one shows me out of range.
I pacmaned xrandr to try to get some hints:
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 400, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1600 x 1200
default connected 1600x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1600x1200 0.00*
1280x1024 0.00
1024x768 0.00
800x600 0.00
640x480 0.00
720x400 0.00
First I thought of creating an own xorg.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and later I got in my mind to use xrandr --mode to set the correct resolution.
Which one of these ideas is the correct one? Do you got a better suggestion for me? What do I have to do to reach my correct resolutions. It seems to me that the screen is handled as beeing one. Cause when I change xrandr default resolution, both screens change its resolution.
Hope the best for your help :-D
cheers
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There is no "correct" one. If it works, it's correct. xrandr is the probably the easier of the two, so stick with that if it works.
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