[NCLUG] Call for Participation: Next NCLUG meeting: Your desktop habits.

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Thu Jun 26 13:31:53 MDT 2008


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 09:04:46PM -0600, Scott Scriven wrote:
> * Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:
> > The main issue for me would be whether I can get the laptop and 
> > the projector talking to each other.
> 
> FreeBSD uses Xorg and xrandr, right?  You should be able to just 
> extend your desktop onto the second screen.
> 
> Or, you could try to set up two independent heads, but that 
> requires some changes to xorg.conf and it's sometimes a bit 
> hairy.
> 
> I couldn't get my video card to do more than 1280x1280 pixels 
> total, so I ended up (so far) with one display at 800x1200 split 
> onto two monitors vertically.  This command worked:
> 
>   xrandr --output LVDS --mode 800x600 \
>          --output VGA  --mode 800x600 --above LVDS
> 
> I may still figure out how to increase its maximum size, and then 
> run 1280x800 on my main display and 800x600 on VGA, but it'll 
> take some fiddling.

Let's go over that in person, 5:30ish before the meeting, if you don't
mind.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Larry Wall: "Just don't create a file called -rf."
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