Dual head (extended mode) on T61 with preloaded SLED

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d.rey · #1 Post by **d.rey** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:36 am

Has anybody been able to set up extended-mode multi-monitoring (dual head) on the T61 with the preloaded SUSE SLED Linux? Can you comment on the setup? Xinerema is greyed out

Thanks in advance,
Daniel.

tylerwylie · #2 Post by **tylerwylie** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:40 pm

First off, what video card are you using?

phr · #3 Post by **phr** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:18 am

The SLED preload for x61's only comes on units with the Intel x3100 card.

tylerwylie · #4 Post by **tylerwylie** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:57 am

Ah! Then XrandR is the tool he is looking for.

crashnburn · #5 Post by **crashnburn** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:04 am

Interesting. Whats the max you can get out of it?

phr · #6 Post by **phr** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:14 am

I was not able to get dual head to work with my T61 and Ubuntu Hardy. How does XRandR help? Its description didn't look that promising.

tylerwylie · #7 Post by **tylerwylie** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:08 am

phr wrote:I was not able to get dual head to work with my T61 and Ubuntu Hardy. How does XRandR help? Its description didn't look that promising.

You can use XRandR to resize and rotate your screen on the fly.

To see if any monitors are hooked up:

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xrandr -q

To extend to one side:

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xrandr --output VGA --auto --left-of LVDS

Dual head (extended mode) on T61 with preloaded SLED

Dual head (extended mode) on T61 with preloaded SLED

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