"Rafael E. Herrera" wrote:
john.janmaat@acadiau.ca wrote:
Hello,
I am running SuSE 7.1 Professional on an IBM Thinkpad. Except for some sound issues, it is working well. I have a second monitor which I want to run at a different resolution. (higher than the default 800x600 of the panel on the laptop).
Are there any good tools for performing such a configuration?
Info on having more than one screen is here:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html
I believe the video port in a laptop is tied to the LCD resolution, I don't think you can run them at different settings. You probably can disable the LCD and set the video port a higher resolution.
I'm not sure how closely they are tied. I do need to set up the monitor differently, as it has scanning speeds that are different from the panel. I recall seeing something about being able to specify an alternate display on boot-up from lilo, which was suggested as a way of dealing with this. This would mean having some extra entries in XF86Config and somehow having X recognize when it is launched that it is using a different display. It is a bit beyond me though, so I am looking for pointers. John.
-- Rafael Herrera Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo
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