24" Monitor Pimp-Out

I couldn't resist ;-) Wanted to see how well the lil' Acer could power a 1920x1200 monitor. Does OK actually - and gives me a fairly convincing development environment. This is the 8GB Linpus version

 

I love how small the AAO is compared to the screen

 

Cool... so how did you do that?

I mean, what's the status of the A1's internal panel? Disabled, 1024x600, or something else?

If I could get my Linpus A1 to output to an external monitor at a different resolution to the internal display, it means presentations on a projector are do-able... so I'm very interested to know what the trick is.

 

Had to add lots to xorg.conf - here it is: (make a backup first!)

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerFlags"
	#Option "DontZap" "yes"
	#Option "DontVTSwitch" "yes"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen      1  "Screen1" 1 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Synaptics Mouse" "AlwaysCore"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us(euro)"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier "Synaptics Mouse"
        Driver     "synaptics"
        Option     "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option     "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option	   "LeftEdge"  "1700"
  	Option	"RightEdge"     "5820"
#"5300"
  	Option	"TopEdge"       "1700"
  	Option	"BottomEdge"    "4200"
  	Option	"FingerLow"	"25"
  	Option	"FingerHigh"	"30"
  	Option	"MaxTapTime"	"180"
  	Option	"MaxTapMove"	"220"
  	Option	"VertScrollDelta" "100"
  	Option	"MinSpeed"	"0.09"
  	Option	"MaxSpeed"	"0.18"
  	Option	"AccelFactor"	"0.0015"
  	Option	"SHMConfig"	"on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier  "Monitor0"
	Modeline  "1024x600" 48.96 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 -HSync +VSync
	
	#Modeline  "1920x1200"
#	Option	"Above"	"Monitor1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier  "Monitor1"
	Modeline "1920x1200_60.00"  193.16  1920 2048 2256 2592  1200 1201 1204 1242  -HSync +Vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "intel"
	Option      "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0"
	Option	    "monitor-VGA" "Monitor1"
	Option	    "Clone" "true"
	Option	"MonitorLayout"	"LVDS,VGA"
	BusID	"PCI:0:2:0"
#	Screen	0
	Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor	    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x600"
		#Virtual	1024 768
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen1"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor	    "Monitor1"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1920x1200_60.00"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

 

Oh and after boot just use the FN+F5 as normal to switch display outputs.

 

All-right ... I see what you're at. All I need to do is edit that to set something like 1024x768 is the Monitor 1 sections.

-and hope the projector isn't an old one that only supports 600x800 .. diving off to edit config files before giving a talk is not a good idea...

I'll give it a shot. If that worked that would be one major gripe against Limpus removed.

[The other is connecting over a proxy, if anyone has a tip handy. Internet access via the Firefox setup network setup menu can be configured just fine, but the rest of the network connections (package and driver updates, primarily) needs to be configured from the network manager instead, but I dont have access to the proxy settings from the menu.]

 

To get the "ModeLine" details, type this into the console:

gtf 1024 676 60

Aside: It astonishes me that all this running around is still needed on modern Linux distros... I guess that's why they're still very much niche players!

 

It isn't needed on the good distros.

 

LOL, I have the same ultra-super-cheap usb hub as you do. LOL

 

I noticed you have commented out the line

Code:

virtual 1024 768

whereas the other posts on this say you should set it to the resolution of the external monitor. Any hints on what this line actually controls in clone mode?