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

[jdavis]

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 15:17, jdavis wrote:
> 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
> > 
> 
excuse me...lol, I tried this with a dual head matrox with sucsess...
Does the output of lspci show 2 different ...heads or cards..?

jd