I have a Dell 1907FP LCD monitor connected to my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop via the VGA port on the side. (Too bad it isn't HDMI, but one can't have everything.) The video card is detected as an 'nVidia Corporation unknown (0x06eb)' by system-config-display.
What I want xorg to do is to recognize that there are two displays running: the laptop's native display and the Dell 1907FP, and use each of these displays at the resolutions they can support. Indeed, I want to be able to connect an external Dell 2407WFP display as well, and have xorg detect which of the two external monitors is being used, and drive the external monitor at the resolution it uses best such as 1920 x 1200.
How do I do that?
Thanks
Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:46 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
I have a Dell 1907FP LCD monitor connected to my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop via the VGA port on the side. (Too bad it isn't HDMI, but one can't have everything.) The video card is detected as an 'nVidia Corporation unknown (0x06eb)' by system-config-display.
What I want xorg to do is to recognize that there are two displays running: the laptop's native display and the Dell 1907FP, and use each of these displays at the resolutions they can support. Indeed, I want to be able to connect an external Dell 2407WFP display as well, and have xorg detect which of the two external monitors is being used, and drive the external monitor at the resolution it uses best such as 1920 x 1200.
How do I do that?
---- KDE Kickoff => SystemSettings => Display
don't know the Gnome equivalent
If display was connected and turned on when you started laptop, it should be able to detect and offer all possible modes.
system-config-display *might* have created an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file which *might* hold you back.
Craig
Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 21:46 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
I have a Dell 1907FP LCD monitor connected to my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop via the VGA port on the side. (Too bad it isn't HDMI, but one can't have everything.) The video card is detected as an 'nVidia Corporation unknown (0x06eb)' by system-config-display.
What I want xorg to do is to recognize that there are two displays running: the laptop's native display and the Dell 1907FP, and use each of these displays at the resolutions they can support. Indeed, I want to be able to connect an external Dell 2407WFP display as well, and have xorg detect which of the two external monitors is being used, and drive the external monitor at the resolution it uses best such as 1920 x 1200.
How do I do that?
KDE Kickoff => SystemSettings => Display
don't know the Gnome equivalent
If display was connected and turned on when you started laptop, it should be able to detect and offer all possible modes.
system-config-display *might* have created an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file which *might* hold you back.
Craig
This helped me do what I think you're asking:
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