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

giggzounet giggzounet at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 12:11:04 PST 2009


Rafał Miłecki a écrit :
> 2009/1/5 giggz <giggzounet at gmail.com>:
>> I'm trying to have dis-similar modes on each head (1400x1050 on one,
>> 1024x768 on the other) in clone mode...but it doesn't work.
>>
>> I have my main screen (LVDS) in 1400x1050 and my second (VGA) in
>> 1024x768. But on the VGA one, I don't have my complete desktop, just a
>> part of it (a rectangle, which its size is 1024x768 of the complete
>> image (1400x1050)).
>>
>> Which changes must I do ? changes in xorg.conf ? or just through xrandr ?
> 
> One of solution is displaying on your VGA whole 1400x1050 scaled to
> 1024x768 (picture will be little "weird" but you will see everything
> at least). I use this to display 1920x1080 on both: my TV (1920x1080)
> and LCD (1600x900). However I don't know how to add such a mode to
> xrandr manually. It's just available for me out of box (xrandr
> --output PANEL --mode 1920x1080Scaled).
> 
> If I get idea of Randr 1.3 and padding right, this will be other
> solution when we will get Xorg server 1.6 released.
> 

Ok,
How do you do this ?

xorg : 7.3
xrandr : 1.2

just with a command line with xrandr ?
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1400x1050Scaled ?

Thx,
GiGGz


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