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hacosta

Member

From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

two displays on intel 945 laptop

i was just wondering if someone has any setup (xinerama, twinview, or whatever) of two displays working, i specifically want my laptop to have 1280x800 and the external display 1280x1024.. any ways, if someone has achieved this can you tell me how you didi it..

brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: two displays on intel 945 laptop

You need xorg-server 1.3 and the rest of the xorg stuff from testing, as well as the xf86-video-intel driver. Then in your xorg.conf, set Virtual 2048 2048 in your SubSection "Display" (don't set virtual higher than that, otherwise you will loose dri). Now, you can configure your display setup using xrandr.

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1280x800 --output VGA --mode 1280x1024 --below LVDS

For a list of available modes, see the output of the xrandr command.

anespo

Member

From: Europe

Registered: 2007-07-17

Posts: 39

Re: two displays on intel 945 laptop

Please, how set if i have 2 display (LVDS on laptop and LCD as VGA)  that LVDS has been as display 1 and VGA as display 2 ? I have  in this moment LVDS as 2 and VGA as 1...  LVDS is primary display. I use xrandr 1.2.1, driver 'intel'. Command is

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1280x800  --output VGA --mode 1024x768 --right-of LVDS