[Wylug-help] Laptop External Display

[Mark Randall]

Hi,

I'm not running Ubuntu at the moment - but I have a suspicion that the
resolution that your laptop screen is set to is incompatible with the
external display - perhaps you could press Fn+F8 once (so the display
is correct) and then change the resolution to the resolution you
usually have on your laptop - this will determine if it is a
resolution / refresh rate problem, or something else...

With regard to running two different displays - I think you need two
graphics cards to achieve this, so the answer is no.

Cheers,

Mark

On 22/05/07, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
> Hi there.  I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 on Dell X300 laptop, which has an
> Intel 855 graphics card, and I'm wanting to use it with an external
> display.
>
> Pressing Fn+F8 once to switch to an external display works fine.
>
> But I'd like to have output on the laptop's screen as well.  Pressing
> Fn+F8 a second time restores the laptop display but makes the external
> display go very wriggly: text shimmers, making it very hard to read, and
> straight lines like window borders are decidedly not straight.  This has
> happened to me with both a projector and an LCD monitor.
>
> Using the i810switch program yields a similar result, except that the
> external monitor is always wriggly regardless of whether the laptop
> display is enabled.
>
> Has anybody got any suggestions for how to project non-wrigglyly while
> still having content on my screen?
>
> Secondly, is it possible to have different content on the two screens,
> so I can have a full-screen Totem or Audacious visualization plug-in on
> the projector while other things are on my screen?
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>
> Smylers
>
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