Displaying X on two monitors simultaneously on a ThinkPad R50.

[Luke Yelavich]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:14:12AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> 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

I also forgot to mention that at least for my ATI-based card in my 
laptop, I absolutely HAD to have the BusID specified in the driver 
section, as it doesn't work otherwise.

Luke