Fedora 10 External Monitor on my Asus EeePC

Post date: Jan 31, 2009 3:06:17 AM

I got around to trying the external monitor port on my EeePC 1000. It worked but I had to play with the settings because the GNOME System>>Preferences>>Hardware>>Screen Resolution did not seem to change the external monitor. I had to use the command line tool xrandr to get where I needed to go.

Here is a script that calls xrandr once for each monitor (the LCD Screen and the VGA external port)...

#!/bin/bash

xrandr --output VGA --mode 1024x768 -r 60 --pos 0x0

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x600 -r 65 --pos 0x0

# use xrandr --output VGA --off

# to go back to normal

This gets both displays on at a time

Here is a toggle script that I have mapped to my F8 key.

II am using the xbindkeys app to do the key binding.

#!/bin/bash

# this cycles through three states for the lcd/vga external display

# 1) LCD only

# 2) LCD and VGA diisplayed

# 3) VGA Only

# This script is bount to the Control F8 key using xbindkey app

if [ -f ~/.lcdOn ]; then

if [ -f ~/.vgaOn ]; then

# current state is 2) VGA only

# next state is 3) VGA only

xrandr --output VGA --mode 1024x768 -r 60 --pos 0x0

xrandr --output LVDS --off

touch ~/.vgaOn

rm ~/.lcdOn

else

# current state is 1) LCD only

# next state is 2) LCD & VGA

xrandr --output VGA --mode 1024x768 -r 60 --pos 0x0

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x600 -r 65 --pos 0x0

touch ~/.vgaOn

touch ~/.lcdOn

else

if [ -f ~/.vgaOn ]; then

# current state is 3) VGA only

# next state is 1) LCD only

xrandr --output VGA --off

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x600 -r 65 --pos 0x0

rm ~/.vgaOn

touch ~/.lcdOn

else

#nothing has been setup so just have the LCD on

xrandr --output VGA --off

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1024x600 -r 65 --pos 0x0

rm ~/.vgaOn

touch ~/.lcdOn

Each time you run it it toggles between 3 states LCD/LCD&External/ExternalOnly