[ltp] T41 (not T41p) capable of Xinerama or dual head?

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:21:01 -0400


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Michael Gaber <Michael.Gaber@gmx.net> wrote:
> 1. use xf86-video-radeon

xf86-video-ati.  I don't know what suse 10.3 ships, but you will need
version 6.7.19x or 6.8.0 or newer for xrandr 1.2 support.

Alex

>  2. set up a virtual-line (I'd say 2800 1050) in your xorg.conf
>  3. attach beamer
>  4. issue xrandr --auto
>  5. be happy
>
>  Jeffrey Taylor schrieb:
>
>
>
> > I am doing a presentation at the end of the week and need to run the
> external
> > display at lower resolution than the 1400x1050 of the internal LCD.
> Perhaps
> > 1024x768 or maybe 1280x1024.  Ideal solution is Xinerama with different
> > display resolutions or maybe some other kind of dual head.  Is the T41
> > 2379-DJU with the ATI RV 250 controller capable of such a thing?  And is
> there
> > some good references/HOWTOs, preferably for SuSE 10.3.
> >
> > TIA,
> >  Jeffrey
> >
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