On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 00:46 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:23, Arun K. Khan wrote: > > Are you perhaps referring to the laptop's LCD display and the VGA out > > at the back as "dual display?" If so, then you are wasting your time > > trying to configure multi head display. Typically on a laptop, you > > can toggle the video HW to display on (a) LCD only, (b) Both > > (LCD+VGA), (c) VGA only. > > I too remember quite distinctly reading an article which showed how to > setup two individual displays on a laptop even with the chip driver not > supporting dual heads. It used xinerama. Right now I cannot find the > link. Google around I am pretty sure theres a hack for this.
I stand corrected w.r.t my post re dual head display on laptops. Some video chips sets in "newer" laptops do support dual head thru LCD and the VGA port *but* it is chip specific and not generic (from Google search for "dual+head+display+laptop+linux." The OP needs to do his home work (research his video hardware) and figure if the X server for his chip set supports dual head. If so, then the following can help him http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/linux/installation/dualheadhowto.htm -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) In Denver it is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
