connecting an external monitor to my laptop

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, jd <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> On Fedora 7, Xorg -7.4-7,
> My graphics chip is the Mobility Radeon 9600 M10.
>
> I connected an external LCD monitor (1600x900)
> to the laptop's vga port.
>
> It automatically becomes a right side span of
> the laptop's monitor, which is not what I want.
> I would like it to have same content as my laptop's
> LCD monitor.
> Furthermore, I need to be able to run it at 1600x900,
> and not default (as it is at present) to 1024x768.
>
> What do I need to do to make this happen?

xrandr --output VGA-0 --pos 0x0 --mode 1600x900

If the vga output does not have the 1600x900 mode, you may need to add
it manually using xrandr --newmode/--addmode.  See this page for more:
http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

Alex