[ltp] thinkpad with external monitor howto (2001FP)

[Shaw Vrana]

On Monday 14 February 2005 02:24 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:43, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > You might want to search google for how to set up custom modelines.
>
> Another ModeLine Calculator seems pretty good:-
>
> http://delenn.tky.hut.fi/amlc/

Thanks for the tip. I found the following web-based app useful too 
http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl. After adding the 
modeline to the "Monitor" section and to the Modes line in the Subsection 
"Display" of Section "Screen" the behavior didn't change- still defaulting to 
the larger display of the unattached, external monitor.  Looking over the XOrg 
logs it looks like this is just a matter of getting my horizontal and 
vertical refresh rates setup correctly.  The hard part about setting up the 
modelines, it seems, is getting some decent specs for your monitor.  I'm 
still searching; IBM's specs weren't helpful enough.

In the meantime, I've setup my thinkpad key to toggle between the sizes I've 
got setup, so switching to 1024x768 isn't that painful.. :)

Thanks,
Shaw