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

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:08:15 -0800, Shaw Vrana <shawv@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.. :)
> 

Oh.  I though you were not able to get 1024x768.  If I understand you
right I think you have done the most that's currently possible for
waht I think you were looking to do.

Alex

> Thanks,
> Shaw