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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Laptop dual-monitor on Linux

xorg.conf:

Extend the appropriate "Display" subsection with the resulting resolution of the two connecting screensizes

Virtual 3360 1050 ((2 x 1680) x 1050)

Restart X server - (Ctrl+alt+backspace)

Run xrandr to check which displays are present. VGA represents external screen. LVDS represents laptop.

xrandr --output VGA-0 --left-of LVDS
xrandr –output VGA-0 –mode 1680×1050

(Distro: Arch Linux)

Links:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43138
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/xrandr-screen-cannot-be-larger-than-...-595649/

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