notebook / multiple visual displays - activation and control

[Jesse Barnes]

On Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:39 am Alex Lancaster wrote:
> Heh, I actually went through an almost identical scenario you just
> painted today.  I've found that with F-8, the only way to make sure
> that the output VGA is sent with the correct resolution, is to reboot
> the computer with the projector/external monitor plugged.  In
> addition, this also presupposes that I've manually tweaked my
> xorg.conf to specifically ask for this setup beforehead.  My laptop is
> 1280x800 but most video projectors only accept 1024x768 VGA input.

That's weird, when you run 'xrandr' it should re-probe the outputs and get a 
list of valid resolutions from whatever is attached to VGA.  What happens for 
you in that case?

Jesse