Hello !
I have an issue using an external VGA monitor that is being hooked up to my
Laptop. The distribution that I use is Trisquel "toutasis". I tried to set
window view using LXDE, Xfce and Gnome, but it doesn't set them as I'd like
to (some manuals say that it is doable in Gnome 4.12, but "toutatis" still
has ver. 4.8). I would like to use external monitor to display my secondary
(virtual) desktop, so that I have a fixed/secondary screen view there where I
could run separate applications and not the same mirrored screen view as on
my (primary) laptop screen.
So, what I managed to accomplish this far:
Setting resoltuions using "xrandr", using the command:
# xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output
LVDS --mode 1366x768 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output HDMI-0 --off
However the above command will only set a full view in my laptop and
"partial" view in the external monitor, because external monitor supports
1024x1080, but if I set that resolution for it, I will only have a partial
view on my laptop (some screen missing), so it doesn't work as supposed. Now
as a result I compensate with a full view in laptop, more than a full view in
external monitor.
If anyone is willing to check, I also added an Xorg logfile to
http://pastebin.com/jS0Tqgnt
also worth mentioning is that there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all. I
tried manually generating one, but it keeps failing.
# lspci -v |grep VGA
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Wrestler [Radeon HD 7340] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Thank you for all suggestions !
Jan
