[ltp] external screen

[Karsten König]

Am Dienstag 10 Februar 2009 20:24:48 schrieb Arno Trautmann:
> Sorry, I didn’t mention the problem itself… when the scre=
en is connected
> after booting, I get the output of xrandr -q as posted. But I donâ€=
™t see
> any singnal on the screen. /that/ is the problem…
> Plugging it in and then booting gives me fine dual-screen.

You need to activate a mode with xrandr.

For your case as example:
'xrandr --output VGA --mode 1024x768 --right-of LVDS'

(should be obvious what will happen I hope =) )

there are ways to do it graphically with gnome, kde, etc..., they are all 
based on xrandr anyways...

Karsten