Setting Up Dual Head Video

[Jamie Bowden]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <200310090707.20029.rodperson at comcast.net>
>             Rod Person <rodperson at comcast.net> writes:
> : If this was M$ windows(AHHH), then I could have the external monitor at
> : 1280x1024 and the LCD would stay at 1024x768 without the panning. This is
> : what I'm shooting for.
>
> That must be new then, because the panning happened in ms windows
> too.  I don't see how it could avoid that.

The display drivers for Windows recognize the difference between the
built-in LCD and an external monitor, and will remember what setting was
appropriate for whichever is active.  I don't think X will do this
natively, but you could fake it with different startup scripts for X
pointing it at two different XF86Config files depending on which was
relevant.

Jamie Bowden

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