From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 11:00:52 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 55FE716A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [66.111.41.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D97A43D1D for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AE86388E; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:00:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96E2850; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:00:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:00:50 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040216105923.T57346-100000@moo.sysabend.org> X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE cc: Jesse Guardiani cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Higher-res external monitors under X 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: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:00:52 -0000 On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Jamie Bowden 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