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tank
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 Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject: Mirror Dual Displays |
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Ok I have a laptop with a Radeon mobile 7500 /32MB ram. I connect it to a 19" Monitor when at work, however when not at work I want to maintain the use of the LCD.
I currently have that setup. However both displays are at the same res. The Laptop display only supports 1024x768, however the Monitor can handle up to 1600x1280. I know the video card will output higher res on the video output. However I do I setup XFconfig to output 1280x1024 to the monitor and only 1024x768. Note I am not interested in "streching my desktop" across both displays. |
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amasidlover
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I currently do dualhead in the way that you don't want, however the way I do it is to have two XF86Config files one for dualhead and one for not - you'd use one for the high res and one for the low-res.
In local.stop you have a line which copies XF86Config.lowres to XF86Config and in local start you have a line which asks if you want to be in hi-res mode e.g. : | Code: | if read -t 5 -p 'DualHead Mode? (y/n) ' DUAL
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if [ "$DUAL" == "y" ]
then /usr/sbin/dualhead
fi
fi
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where dualhead is a script which copies the dualhead (or hires) version of XF86Config.hires onto XF86Config.
Remember to keep copies of the files though!
Its not automatic - this can only be done if your chipset can detect the monitor prescence, as far as I can tell most can't.
But logging in to an ordinary console as root and typing | Code: | | dualhead ; killall -HUP X ; exit |
is a very quick way to switch it if you miss the prompt. |
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tank
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Very good idea. One change I may make is instaed of coping the file, making a symbolic link to the choosen XFconfig mode. |
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tank
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:13 pm Post subject: Another Question |
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| I have gotten Dual Displays working with my T40 thinkpad with Radeon mobile 7500 using Xinerma. However I can not seem to make the external monitor the Primary. Is there a way to make the external monitor the primary on a Laptop? If not, is there a way to put the Kicker in KDE on the secondary display? |
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amasidlover
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| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| In Gnome its just a case of dragging the bar across the screen. For some reason my KDE install is dead so I can't help with that... |
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