ati and 2 monitors with 2 different resolutions : is it possible ?

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:42 PM, giggz <giggzounet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Happy new year!
>
> I have a question :
> on my laptop (debian sid), I have a second monitor on the VGA output.
>
> I don't have any problem on the VGA output when the monitor has the same
> display resolution (1400x1050) as the LVDS monitor.
> But when my second monitor has a lower resolution (1024x768), I can have
> a correct "clone" mode : on the second monitor I have a part of the
> "big" one (a rectangle 1024x768).
>
> Is there something to do ?

What exactly are you trying to do?  With clone mode you can have
either dis-similar modes on each head (1400x1050 on one, 1024x768 on
the other) or a common mode on both heads (e.g., 1024x768 on both).

Alex