From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 03:19:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB1116A4B3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:19:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from natsmtp00.webmailer.de (natsmtp00.rzone.de [81.169.145.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1999143FAF for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from me@benedikt-stockebrand.de) Received: from benedikt-stockebrand.de (p50892879.dip.t-dialin.net [80.137.40.121]) by post.webmailer.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9AAJiC7019764 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:19:44 +0200 (MEST) Received: from anvil.devnull.benedikt-stockebrand.de ([192.168.47.13]) by benedikt-stockebrand.de with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1A7uN5-00007V-00 for mobile@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:19:43 +0200 To: mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <20031009073054.F20891-100000@moo.sysabend.org> From: Benedikt Stockebrand Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:19:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20031009073054.F20891-100000@moo.sysabend.org> (Jamie Bowden's message of "Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:33:01 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Setting Up Dual Head Video X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:19:48 -0000 Hello list, maybe my grasp of the english language is somewhat incomplete but I still don't quite understand the Rod's original problem (and probably should've asked more precisely). Rod, do you want both displays to display the same stuff at the same time at different resolutions? If so, that won't work as far as I can tell, and even if some hardware was downscaling things so both displays showed the same picture at different resolutions I strongly suspect that this would make text hard to read. If you want to use higher resolution when an external monitor is connected but switch down to whatever your LCD has to offer that however is possible. You put this in your XF86Config (in my case this is a Toshiba Tecra S1 with a Radeon Mobility 9000, driving the external CRT at 1600x1200): Section "Device" [...] Option "PanelOff" "True" Option "CloneHSync" "30-130" Option "CloneVRefresh" "50-160" EndSection and Section "Screen" [...] SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Just make sure to set your BIOS to autochoose the display instead of using both simultaneously (which would limit the display to the greatest resolution both devices support). This will get you an effect similar to what Jamie said about Windows. If you want anything fancier I agree with Jamie the best idea is a set of different XF86Configs and maybe a script that asks what you want whenever you boot (another one on that long list of things I want to do...). Cheers, Ben -- Dipl. Inform. Tel.: +49 (0) 6151 - 971 823 Benedikt Stockebrand Mobil: +49 (0) 177 - 41 73 985 Am Karlshof 1a Mail: me@benedikt-stockebrand.de D-64287 Darmstadt WWW: http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de