[PLUG] Xrandr

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu Nov 18 00:14:05 UTC 2010


I'm still trying to figure out how to get my laptop screen to appear on
a projector. I've been googling and reading the man page for xrandr,
but I don't understand much of it. My laptop screen runs at 1680 x 1050
with the nouveau driver, and I think the max that most projectors do is
1280 x 1050. 

If someone has used xrandr to get a laptop screen to display on a
projector at the same time, it would help if you would share the
command(s) you use. 

Oh, and I have xrandr 1.3 on Fedora 13. The following is the output of
xrandr -q (or xrandr --current):

Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1050
default connected 1680x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1680x1050       0.0* 
   1280x1024      61.0  
   1280x800        0.0  
   1024x768       61.0  
   800x600        61.0  

I'm going to Portland State tomorrow to see if I can find a classroom
with a projector that is open and not in use. Or maybe I can use the
multimedia test room in the library. Hopefully I can take some time to
experiment until I get it right. 

Thanks in advance for suggestions and advice.



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