also sprach Jesse Sheidlower <jes...@panix.com> [2010.03.15.1453 +0100]: > The T60 has a Radeon X1300 card; the built-in monitor runs at > 1400 x 1050. I'm trying to attach a 1280 x 1024 external > monitor through the VGA port. I'm running Xorg 1.7.5, and I do > not have an xorg.conf at all, I'm letting Xorg generate the > configuration. When I plug in the external monitor, and run > Display Preferences to try to set up the two displays, I get a > popup message reading "The selected configuration for displays > could not be applied[:] required virtual size does not fit > available size: requested=(2680,1050), minimum=(320, 200), > maximum=(1400, 1400)".
Does the following work? xrandr --output VGA --mode 1280x1024 --left-of LVDS What is the output of xrandr --query ? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems someday we'll find it the rainbow connection the lovers, the dreamers, and me! -- kermit
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