laptop W dua headed X?

[Jim Richardson]

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 15:14 -0500, stan wrote:
> My laptop just "does the right thing" in X in 5.10, in that if a monitor is
> pluged in at boot X comes up on it, and if not, it comes up on the built in
> LCD.
> 
> Now, I'd like to use both, as one desktop, so tat I can ahve more
> realesate.
> 
> How can I do thsi?
> 


Most likely, you can't. Since the external VGA connector probably simply
mirrors the video output to the built in screen. Most laptops don't do
dual head. Some will. If the hardware supports it, then you can probably
do it with Xinerama, but I can't help with details, as my laptop doesn't
do that :)


-- 
Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. -- Henry
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