On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 07:04:51AM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 16:35 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > >From time to time, I use a beamer on my external VGA port of my laptop. > > My laptop TFT panel has a resolution of 1400x1050 pixels but the beamer > > has a resolution of only 800x600. However, it can support 1024x768 using > > software scaling. Right now I have to edit my XF86Config-4 by hand and > > then restart my X server. The problem is that X does recognize the > > beamer on the external port and does switch back to a lower resolution, > > but the viewport stays at 1400x1050, not very handy. Does anybody know > > of an easy solution? > > The RandR extension in XFree86 4.3 and later supports this (resolution > switch and resize desktop to match) and there are toolbar doodads > (gnome-randr-applet) you can get that let you control the switch with a > few mouseclicks. > > I used this on my old laptop, but it would only switch between 1600x1200 > and 1280x1024 but that was a driver (or X config) issue - I know the > Vesa driver let me switch between 1600x1200 all the way down to 640x480.
This sounds good! I'll also look into the RandR extension. Thanks! David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
