[ltp] advice/comments on the T60

[Jon Escombe]

Hi Phil,

I don't have a docking station for the T60, but have connected an external panel on the VGA port. 

I can have one big desktop stretched across both monitors at the same resolution (both at 1400x1050), or individual desktops at discrete resolutions (in my case 1400x1050 internally and 1600x1200 externally). Unfortunately xrandr doesn't seem able to change the resolution of the external display dynamically, so it looks like you'd need to change the settings in xorg.conf to achieve this...

HTH,
Jon.

----- Original Message -----

Hi Jon

My use case is this:
(1) At work I use laptop (1400x1050) in a dock with external LCD display 
(1280x1024) - giving me two screens wide.
(2) Then travelling home use laptop alone (1400x1050).
(1) Then at home plug into a dock to provide same twin-screen display as 
at work.
(3) Then occasionally need to run a projector (1280x1024 or 1024x768) 
off external monitor port on laptop to give presentations.

This works completely seamlessly with Windoze. At one stage I had 
scenarios 1 & 2 working with FC5 and the proprietary ATI drivers (but 3 
didn't work), but after upgrading it to FC6 it no longer worked, and the 
latest ATI drivers no longer support my ATI Mobility FireGL 9000. I'm 
hoping a more modern thinkpad graphics card will have good support for 
twin-head. I don't mind having to restart the X-server to switch configs 
(although I'd rather not) but rebooting and/or reconfigurating X 
manually is a no-no.

Cheers
Phil