Incomplete desktop on LVDS when also using external VGA

[Hinko Kocevar]

Hi,

Thanks for the rapid response and explanation..

On 10/24/10 13:09, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On dim., 2010-10-24 at 13:07 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> xrandr --output VGA1  --mode 1680x1050
>
> Ho and it looks like your TV can't do 1680x1050, in that case you'll
> have to switch to the highest common resolution which seems to be
> 1024×768 which is not very nice.

Not nice..

>
> The fact that LVDS1 is 16:10 and the VGA1 16:9 doesn't really help
> either.

Bad.

Is there a way to manage this with some scaling factors? I noticed that 
xrandr can be supplied with --scale argument .. Anyone tried this?

Thank you!
Hinko


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