[ltp] T30 with an external Display

[Gregor Rojec-Goldmann]

executing:  xvidtune -next
... and nothing happens.

executing: xvidtune -show
gives me:
Floating point exception

Best Regards,
Gregor


Thomas J. Valerio wrote:

>Use xvidtune -next to cycle through your different resolutions
>
>       Thomas Valerio
>
>
>Gregor Rojec-Goldmann wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have a T30 with Radeon Mobility M7 LW (Radeon 7500) and 1400x1050 with
>>XFree 4.2.1 and Debian testing.
>>
>>I would like to connect an external display with different resolution
>>than the builtin LCD to the running X server.
>>
>>I changed the resolution in the X configuration file and it works. I
>>start the X server with different config files for different settings.
>>But there are two problems:
>>
>>1. There is no mirroring. I can switch to the external or internal
>>   display, but can't have the picture on both at the same time, which is
>>   annoying at presentations.
>>
>>2. When I shut down the X server after connecting and disconnecting an
>>external display the video get corrupted and I have to reboot.
>>
>>It would also be great if I could use Ctrl+Alt+NumPad+- to switch the
>>resolution of the running X server, but I couldn't get it to work
>>either. The manpage says that it should be used with a boolean (Option
>>"DontZoom"  "boolean"), but the xserver will not accept a boolean value
>>on this option.
>>
>>Any experience with this?
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Gregor
>>