Intel 945Gm Dual Head

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Fri Jan 4 15:52:14 PST 2008


On Friday, January 04, 2008 2:05 pm dtgames at kinggeek.org wrote:
> I don't want to use Windows XP and I need my screen real estate so I want
> to get this working with OpenSuSE 10.3.  Currently I can only get it to
> close the 1024x768  display to the external monitor.
>
> I followed http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html and tried both
> methods and neither worked.
>
> xrandr -q outputs the below:
>
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2048 x 768

I think you want a maximum of 2304 x 1024 (1280+1024 x max(1024,768) assuming 
a side by side configuration).

> Section "Screen"
>   Device       "Device[0]"
>   Identifier   "Screen[0]"
>   Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
>   DefaultDepth 24
>   SubSection "Display"
>     Depth      24
>     Modes      "1024x768"
>     Virtual      2048 768
>   EndSubSection
> EndSection

So increasing your 'virtual' size here should work.

Jesse



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