[ale] video woes

[Tim Watts]

On Sunday 07 September 2008 12:34 pm, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what does
>
> xrandr --verbose
>
> output when your external monitor is connected?
>
~$ xrandr --verbose
 SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
 0   1280 x 800    ( 332mm x 207mm )   60
 1   1280 x 768    ( 332mm x 207mm )   60
*2   1024 x 768    ( 332mm x 207mm )  *60
 3   1280 x 600    ( 332mm x 207mm )   60
 4   1024 x 600    ( 332mm x 207mm )   60
 5    800 x 600    ( 332mm x 207mm )   60
 6    768 x 576    ( 332mm x 207mm )   60
 7    640 x 480    ( 332mm x 207mm )   60
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none
Setting size to 2, rotation to normal
Setting reflection on neither axis

[I've changed the res to 1024x768 for now -- which leaves the laptop display 
skewed.]

> In my setup, my laptop display supports 1280x800 and my monitor supports
> 1440x900
>
> I am able to enable dual-display with
>
> xrandr --output VGA --auto --right-of LVDS
>
<snip/>

Interesting. I'll tinker with this.

What do VGA and LVDS refer to? Some configuration name I presume? I don't see 
them referenced in xorg.conf.


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