Dual monitor set up

[sagar_322]

Hi there, I have lenovo ideapad laptop and I want to connect external monitor from the laptop's VGA connector. I have LG L224WS monitor, its resolution is 1680x1050. But when I connect the monitor to laptop things in the monitor are looking bigger I cannot make it to monitor's resolution. I am running ubuntu 10.04...
any help would be appreciated thanks in advance..

[krytorii]

What's the resolution of your laptop screen? What's probably happening is that you're outputting the same resolution to screens that are capable of different resolutins.

[sagar_322]

Currently laptop resolution is 1366x768..

[LiamOS]

Try

xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1 --auto

If those are not your screen names, use

xrandr -q

to discover what they actually are.

Hope this works.

[sagar_322]

Try

xrandr --output VGA1 --auto --right-of LVDS1 --auto

If those are not your screen names, use

xrandr -q

to discover what they actually are.

Hope this works.

No this did not work.. I am getting same screen..