[desktop-discuss] [laptop-discuss] Xinerama

[Albert Lee]

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 17:26 -0800, Iban Nieto wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Someone here has sucessfully run Xorg with Xinerama in a laptop to extend the desktop on external LCD monitor? I have made several attempts, but only got clone view using various screen resolutions. 
> 
> What I need is to have my laptop with a resolution of 1024 x768 and external LCD monitor at 1280x1024 with JDS extended (it's correct to say using Xinerama?) 
> 
> I have a Thinkpad X40 laptop with Intel GMA900 (i855) graphics chipset.
> 
> If anyone could help me :) 
> 
> Thank you very much!
>  

It's multi-head on a single device, so it's not actually Xinerama. The
intel driver supports RandR 1.2 so the xrandr commands at
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 should work for you to add
a second desktop.

-Albert