From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 09:41:51 2004 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 A3D6416A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:41:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7455543D1F for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:41:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Asmkg-0003Zk-00 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:41:50 +0100 Received: from makrothumia.wingnet.net ([206.30.215.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon Feb 16 17:41:50 2004 Received: from jesse by makrothumia.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon Feb 16 17:41:50 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:41:47 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20040216165033.GA19948@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: makrothumia.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: Higher-res external monitors under X X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:41:51 -0000 Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I've asked a variant of this question elsewhere, so I > apologize for anyone seeing it again. To reduce it to what I > think is the simplest form: > > I'm running XFree86 4.3.0 on an IBM ThinkPad X23 under FreeBSD > 4.8, with Gnome/Metacity. The built-in screen has a maximum > resolution of 1024x768. I would like to be able to plug in an > external monitor and have that monitor display with a higher > resolution, without having to restart X (and thus have to shut > down all my running X apps, etc.). > > How can I accomplish this, if it's even possible? I don't think it is possible. Maybe someday soon though. The new RandR extensions should allow for on-the-fly resolution changes, but unfortunately I don't think any window managers have taken advantage of the new functionality yet. I think I saw KDE support in CVS though, so it should be available soon. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net