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venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

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Dual monitor with different resolutions toshiba A205-s4577 laptop

I have an external monitor (1680*1050) attached to my toshiba laptop  (1200*800) with intel integrated 945GM graphics.
I want to use extended desktop, and iam using Xorg from testing, can anyone post  their xorg.conf for a similar setup?
i tried xrandr commands but it didnt work.
thanks

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senjin

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Registered: 2006-09-15

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Re: Dual monitor with different resolutions toshiba A205-s4577 laptop

Hi.

I failed to configure xorg.conf to get "static" dual head configuration, but I managed to do this with xrandr

2 tricks i had to do:

1. define sufficiently large "Virtual" size in "Display" subsection in "Screen" Section of your xorg.conf
2. xrandr -q allowed me to use 1024x768 maximum  resolution, but I found in google setup for 1280x1024 and added it with "newmode" and "addmode" options in randr...

you can find more info at http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html, and in xrandr manpage.

I hope it will help...

Last edited by senjin (2008-01-03 23:14:34)