[ltp] r51 and external monitor

[David Tansey]

Last suggestion/guess.

could you have two cloned Xs running side by side, with one 
of one resolution (external) and one of another (your 
laptop.) Then when you plug it in the external monitor shows 
that screen, but it has everything you wanted.



-David

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 08:44:43 -0400
>From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [ltp] r51 and external monitor  
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>
>On 6/6/05, David Tansey <djtansey@umd.edu> wrote:
>> Michael,
>> 
>> I am interested in a similar setup. I have an x40 with a
>> docking station. Trying to set it up so I can dock it and
>> have it switch to my external monitor at a different
>> resolution but with the same session I had open on my 
laptop.
>> Not sure whether X will like a cloned system when the
>> laptop's monitor has been turned off (when I shut it.)
>> 
>> Let me know what you find out.
>> 
>> Search the archives for someone mentioning Xvattr -- might 
be
>> lowercase x. Someone said they'd found an Xv command that
>> seemed to do it. Been too busy at work to mess around at 
all.
>> 
>
>the xvattributes only affect the video overlay.  the 
attribute in
>question just switches wich crtc the overlay is sourced to.  
X does
>not currently support on the fly reconfiguration.
>
>Alex
>
>> If what you're trying to do is similar to what I'm trying 
to
>> do (I'd also the the ability to have both up simultanously
>> with some short cut or something), then keep in touch.
>> Hopefully we can help each other out.
>> 
>> -David
>> 
>> ---- Original message ----
>> >Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:05:47 +0200
>> >From: Michael Ott <michael@zolnott.de>
>> >Subject: Re: [ltp] r51 and external monitor
>> >To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>> >
>> >Hello Jan!
>> >
>> >> >I have a new r51 and i want to use an external monitor
>> (1600 x 1200).
>> >> >Does anybody have an existing XF86config for me 
because i
>> have problems
>> >> >with the configuration of this file.
>> >>
>> >> Do you have an ati or an intel graphic-board?
>> >ati
>> >>
>> >> I have an intel extreme graphics 2 and a (semi-)working
>> setup with two monitors.
>> >>
>> >> What do you want?
>> >>
>> >> xinerama:
>> >> One screen over both monitors so that your windowmanager
>> spreads over both monitors?
>> >No
>> >
>> >> or (what I use):
>> >> Two different screens, one per monitor, so that you can
>> use different windowmanagers per screen
>> >> or just leave the second alone.
>> >> I use this. To get a program showing up there I use
>> DISPLAY=":0.1" in front of the command. Very
>> >> nice for presentations, I think, because you can see 
your
>> text/hints on your laptop without
>> >> showing them to the audience.
>> >No
>> >
>> >> clone:
>> >> Just make a identical clone of the LCD to the external 
VGA.
>> >Yes
>> >
>> >CU
>> >
>> >  Michael
>> >
>> >--
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