[Intel-gfx] Dual display problems with intel graphics

Shuang He shuang.he at intel.com
Tue Nov 17 02:16:32 CET 2009


Per your output, you could execute following command, and see if you got 
your project display:
xrandr --output VGA1 --auto

And I think there should be tool to setup these in Ubuntu's system menu 
(system->preference->display or something)

Thanks
--Shuang

kartik wrote:
>
>
> I have a Dell Vostro A860 running Ubuntu Karmic with Intel Mobile
> GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller. I want to use my laptop for
> projecting my presentations etc through an LCD projector. I also went
> through the following link: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html
> However I could not configure the projector using display settings in
> panel. I use the Fn+F8 key after connecting the projector but there is
> no display in the projector though my laptop monitor resolution changes.
> The xorg.conf is blank. The output of xrandr -q is
> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1360 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
> VGA1 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 0mm x 0mm
>    1360x768 59.8*
>    1152x864 60.0
>    1024x768 60.0
>    800x600 60.3
>    640x480 59.9
> LVDS1 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 344mm x 193mm
>    1366x768 60.1 +
>    1360x768 59.8*
>    1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0
>    832x624 74.6
>    800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
>    640x480 85.0 72.8 75.0 59.9
>    720x400 85.0
>    640x400 85.1
>    640x350 85.1 Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200,
> Do I have a problem in configuring Xorg? or is it a bug with this
> graphics card on Ubuntu.
> How to fix this?
> regards
> Kartik
>
>
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