Subject: Re: Double Moniter
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 19:28:08 AKST
I seem to recall some laptops that could do dual-screen - one screen on
the laptop and the other on a the vga-out. I think they were Sony
Vaio's of one sort or another, but i may be mistaken. But yes, most
just have the vga-out display the same thing as the lcd.
In the case of my laptop, it displays the same thing, and doing that is
just a matter of plugging in the monitor. I didn't have any problems
with the existing XF86Config, but I would imagine that this could be a
source of problem. I didn have to change the external monitor setting
in the bios from "external only" to "both on" for when you have an
external monitor connected, otherwise the laptop didn't recognize that
the monitor was plugged in.. I'm guessing the "switching" is a Windows
driver thing.
Justin
enderak@yahoo.com
James Bagley Jr. wrote:
> Typically, laptops only have one *display*. You might be able to plug two
> screens into it, but they will display the same thing. If you had two
> video cards then you could do what you want. I've never seen a laptop
> with two video cards, but if you find one let me know. That would be
> pretty damn kewl (I can just imagine folding out a second LCD screen on my
> laptop). ;-)
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Adam Elkins wrote:
>
>
>>How do I tell X I have 2 moniters? I guess, let me ask this first, I can set
>>it up so one desktop is on on screen and another is on a diffrent one?
>>Notes: I;m using Mandrake, and it's a laptop.
>>
>>Adam
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