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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:00:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Higher-res external monitors under X
Message-ID:  <20040216105923.T57346-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpwu6mzwlx.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> writes:

> > Unless something has changed, as long as you have valid modelines for
> > all display devices and resolutions you plan on having X output to,
> > ctrl-alt-+ and ctrl-alt-- are your friends.

> That only works if the virtual desktop size is at least as large as the
> highest physical resolution you want to support.  At all other
> resolutions you will have to swim around with the mouse, which to put it
> plainly sucks.

> Of course my Latitude D600 has a 1600x1200 panel, so I don't have this
> problem :)

If Dell ever gets monitor stands in, I'll get to find out how well the SGI
rebranded 21" monitor on my floor handles the 1920X1200 I run X at on the
D800.

Jamie Bowden

--=20
"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>




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