[lug] Another question on X. displaying at two resolutions simultaneously?

[jdavis]

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 14:54, Phil Rasch wrote:
> >From the recent exchanges about dual heads it looks to me like some of
> you know a bunch more about X (specifically XFree86) than I do.
> 
> Specifically, I am wondering if it is possible to drive two monitors
> off of one graphics card at different resolutions? (I recognize that
> the previous exchange was relavant to a dual graphic card configuration.)
> 
> The application is for presentations. I would like to be able to
> display the presentation at 1400x1050 in my laptop display, while
> driving the external display (the projector) at 1024x768. At the
> moment I am stuck driving both at the lower resolution. Then I
> either:
> 1) let the BIOS stretch the image to occupy the full laptop screen (but it
>    looks terrible)
> 2) only draw to a subset of the laptop screen (which looks fine, but
>    smaller than it needs to be).
> 
> I think you can do what I want with Mac's. Is it possible under X/Linux?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Phil
> 

yes this is possible...I do a little webdev...so when i was running
multi-mon i had one mon at 1024x768 and the other at 800x600, using
xinerma, gnome,and rh7.3. It was really nice...i could just drag between
the different resolutions. 

jd
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