Hi, thank you a lot for your post.
I spent quite a long time already yesterday with that wiki text. But it didn't help much. Where should you put that "xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768 --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --left-of LVDS" ? In "xorg.conf file" or? the output of xrandr -q in my system: +++++++++++++++ ~$ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1680 x 1200 VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 306mm x 230mm 1680x1050 60.0 1600x1024 60.0 1400x1050 60.0 1280x1024 59.9 60.0 1440x900 60.2 1280x960 60.0 1280x800 60.0 1152x864 75.0 1280x768 60.0 1152x768 54.8 1024x768 84.9 85.0 75.1 75.0 70.1 60.0* 832x624 74.6 800x600 84.9 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 75.0 60.0 59.9 720x400 85.0 70.1 640x400 85.1 640x350 85.1 70.1 LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm 1024x768 60.0*+ 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 S-video disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) ++++++++++++++ What is your advice, what do with that? - hv --- On Fri, 2/20/09, Maggie Dusnic <[email protected]> wrote: xrandr does work on Lenny. We've got two laptops using it with no problems. Studying http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 was really helpful, particularly understanding the 2048x2048 concept in the Virtual screen section. With xrandr you keep your xorg.conf file to a minimum. Obviously your mileage may vary but if it's any help, my xrandr command is: $ xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x768 --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --left-of LVDS. I had to change VGA to VGA-0. You can find your own display types with: $ xrandr -q That's it, although in Xfce I have to log out and then back in again to get the extra widths showing in the desktop workspaces. Hope it helps Maggie
