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

[Paul RIVIER]

Hello,

>
>PMJI: Were you able to make clone mode work so that you had different
>resolution settings for the T'pad and projector? I have T43, SuSE 10.0 and
>ATI's latest drivers. If I put it in clone mode, it does not seem to "see" the
>external display. In mirror mode, it works fine but I have to change
>resolution to 1280x1024 for it to work without scrolling on the external
>display. Trying to set the resolution on the external display with "aticonfig
>--resolution2=whatever" results in an invalid command (I suspect that the
>config program is not seeing the second monitor). When in clone mode, it also
>does not show a second display in desktop config. It also went to the wrong
>screen. I would like to get clone mode to work as work as large desktop as
>opposed to projector (I would really like both).
>
>Again, pardon me for butting in.
>
>  
>

I can not display the same screen with 2 different resolutions because 
of a limitation of the open source ati's driver in xorg 6.8.
If you use ATI's proprietary drivers - which I really don't want to use 
-, the driver is not the same and it's behaviour is totally different. 
So I really can't help you with that.
AFAIK, the OS ati driver that comes with xorg 7 will be able to deal 
with the "2 displays, 2 resolutions, same screen" problem.
Large desktop is perfectly supported already with xorg 6.8, using xinerama.

Regards


Paul