Arg, resolution problems on laptop/monitor

[wwp]

Hello Christopher,


On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:55:51 -0600 "Christopher J. Bottaro" <cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> A while ago, I posted a question on to setup my FC3 install to detect if my
> laptop is plugged into a monitor and if so, use a certain
> resolution/modeline and if not, use another.  Someone suggested that I have
> both resolutions and modelines in my xorg.conf and simply use ctrl-alt-+
> (or ctrl-shift-+ or whatever the combo is) to change resolutions based on
> if I'm using the monitor or not.  Well that didn't work for me.  The key
> combo doesn't do anything.

Running a laptop? Take care: the + or - keys are the ones from the keypad, and
on a laptop the keypad keys might be emulated w/ another additional key to
press (on my Dell it's the Fn key -> CTRL+ALT+Fn+/ and CTRL+ALT+Fn+;).

HTH!


Regards,

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wwp