On Apr 23, 08 15:40:18 +0200, Alexander Beck-Ratzka wrote:
I've tried several ways to get my laptop TFT screen with a resolution of 168ßx1050 and my LCD screen on my desk with a resolution of 1280x1024 running. [...] I've already received the tip out of the xorg mailinglist to try the radeonhd driver instead. Therefore I've installed it from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Drivers:/Video:/radeonhd/open...
via Yast, removed all the ati anf fglrx staff, let run
sax -r
and afterwards
xrandr --auto
The result is a perfect laptop display, but my DELL 1907 FPT (which I like to be used as a cloned display) shows only parts of the desktop; the boundaries ly outside the Display. sax doesn't show a cloned dual head.
Hm. What do you expect? Two monitors at different resolutions that
should show a cloned desktop with everything shown on both monitors? How
should that ever work... the smaller of the two monitors can only
display a part of the larger desktop (which has to be larger for the
monitor with the larger resolution).
What you *can* try is to feed the same resolution to both monitors (you
might need to "xrandr --addmode" this mode to the other monitor, because
it doesn't advise it), and if the smaller monitor is capable of
accepting the higher resolution it can scale it down. Be warned, this
doesn't work on many monitors.
Another possibility would be to use a compositing desktop and write (!)
a plugin that clones the display on different screens in different
resolutions.
All these possibilities have in common that the scaled version of the
desktop will look fuzzy or broken, and the fonts will be hard to read.
But that's part of the nature of your problem.
Matthias
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Matthias Hopf