[intel] Two different screens possible for a Laptop
Remy Bosch
remybosch at zonnet.nl
Mon Jun 18 23:55:01 PDT 2007
I have one monitor section for my main display (LCD) and added a virtual
with the size of the combined size of the two displays.
Note that for this example, you'll need:
- xserver-1.3 or greater
- intel-driver-2.0 or greater
- xrandr-1.2 or greater
[code= xorg.conf snippet]
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Main TFT"
Device "915"
Monitor "LCD Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 2560 1024 # Added room for 1280x1024
sized display here.
EndSubsection
EndSection
[/code]
Then, when X is started up, you run xrandr:
xrandr --output VGA --auto # enable any display
connected auto-magicly
xrandr --output VGA --right-of LVDS # Set the VGA on the right side
So, in short yes ;-)
See the xrandr man page for more options.
Depending on you hardware (mine is a i915) you'll lose dri. This has to
do with the displaysize the chip can handle. Gues Intel bet that the
second screen would only be used for cloning :(
Remy
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