[ltp] yet an other external monitor question (the same as ever) :)

[Paul RIVIER]

Stephan, Bill,

Thank to your xorg.conf I could perfectly use my laptop on the projector.
Thank you

Paul

PS : I noticed that in any resolution I would use, the top of the screen 
was not displayed on the projectors (2 projectors were coupled as to 
display on 2 sides of the room).
That corresponds roughly to the height of a gnome panel by default. This 
is not a big deal, but it was surprising. Probably a problem with the 
projectors settings ..?



Paul RIVIER wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> my laptop is a T42 with an Ati 9600 (M10) and a internal resolution of 
> 1400x1050.
> Very soon I'll have to use it for a slideshow.
> What I would like to do is just to plug the vga and maybe enter a 
> "xrandr" command, then get the same thing on both my tp screen and the 
> video projector, which undoubtly won't be a 1400x1050 one :). I will 
> not have much time to restart X etc etc.
>
> In spite of this is probably THE most basic usage of the dual head, I 
> can not figure how to do that. I've looked into my linux-thinkpad 
> archive, as well as on google and on my distro forums (it is ubuntu 
> 5.10).
>
> My X version is :  X Window System Version 6.8.2 (Ubuntu 6.8.2-77 
> 20051010174523 root@vernadsky.buildd) Release Date: 9 February 2005
>
> I really don't need to extand screens or to do fancy stuffs. I would 
> only like to be able to use the mirror mode on time for the slideshow.
>
> Do you have anything to help me, a xorg.conf or a good how-to, any 
> link ... ?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
> Paul