hi, WinXP of all things allows you to control a laptop's external VGA connector as a separate display, totally independent of the internal LCD. Can this be done in XF86 (4.2.1 here, thanks Branden + XFTF!)?
The reason I ask is because I have an LCD that does 1400x1050 and any lower resolution is just too fuzzy. And I also have an external monitor that can do 1280x1024, but not 1400x1050. I prefer to work with the external monitor as it's bigger and better in terms of ergonomical placement. But I don't feel like restarting X to set a new resolution every time I connect to the external monitor. Alt-Ctrl-Numlock+ and Alt-Ctrl-Numlock- don't work (they produce crazy patterns on the screen for all resolutions but the one I started out with. Maybe that's a framebuffer issue. It would rock if I could use the external VGA separately from the internal one (it's a Radeon Mobility M6 LY driving this baby) because then I could have a dual-headed setup, which would be incredible! Any hints appreciated! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck "it appears that pl/i (and its dialects) is, or will be, the most widely used higher level language for systems programming." -- j. sammet
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