X-Server 1.3, randr 1.2 and dualscreen?

JM Ibanez jm at orangeandbronze.com
Sun Mar 25 07:33:17 PDT 2007


Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de> writes:

> Andreas Schildbach wrote:
>
>> I can now do dualscreen with
>>
>>   Virtual 1920 1968
>>
>> in my Display subsection (I've got one 1920 x 1200 screen above and
>> a 1280 x 768 below)
>>
>> and
>>
>> $ xrandr --output LVDS --below VGA
>
> I just realized that this is still a bit unstable: I can get
> dualscreen working by doing this the first time, but if I then switch
> LVDS off by
>
> $ xrandr --output LVDS --off
>
> I can never switch it on again with
>
> $ xrandr --output LVDS --below VGA
>
> Is this a known problem?

Hmm... interesting.  I usually turn the LVDS back on with --auto. Have
you tried that? (Which should be marked as a bug, maybe?)

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JM Ibanez
Senior Software Engineer
Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co.

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