Displaying X on two monitors simultaneously on a ThinkPad R50.

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 26.11.2004, 09:15 +1100 schrieb 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.
sounds like a good wiki candidate
:)

ciao
	oli

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