[OLPC-AU] Sugar on Mirrored on Dual Monitors

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

my experience with soas strawberry on a dell is that it wouldnt even output to a data projector unless present at boot time

so you could try booting with and without the extra monitor plugged in


> Not sure where to pose this question but I'll start here. Have made some 
> progress from web searching but am now stuck - I'm very new to linux and sugar.
> 
> I'm running SoaS v3 on a Dell Latitude D400 and want to mirror the display 
> on another monitor.
> 
> When monitor 2 is an old CRT it mirrors but when I use a flatscreen I get 
> an extended display instead. My reading says that this is the default 
> behavior with Fedora 13. Of course I want it to work on the flatscreen!
> 
> I found that
> 
> xrandr --output VGA1 --same-as LVDS1
> 
> in a terminal session does the trick but it's back to extended when I leave 
> the terminal session.
> 
> Hope someone can help.
> 
> Peter
> 
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