Displaying X on two monitors simultaneously on a ThinkPad R50.

[Luke Yelavich]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:22:29PM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> Hi all.
> Does anybody have any pointers as to what I have to do to get X to 
> display on the LCD and an external VGA monitor under X with the ATI 
> driver included with Warty? this is on a ThinkPad R50.

Ok, I worked it out. I had to create another monitor section for my 
external monitor, and then also create another screen section that uses 
the second monitor. I also modified the monitor and screen names so they 
made a little more sense. I then changed my Screen line in the 
ServerLayout section to look like this:
Screen		"Laptop Screen" 0 0
Screen		"External Screen" 0 0

There may be a better way, but this works. This is basically saying to 
put both screens at 0 0, so they both display the same image. It would 
be also very easy to change this to use two monitors for a bigger 
desktop by simply removing the 0 0 and changing the bottom Screen line 
to state more clearly where it should be in relation to the first 
screen.

Luke