Setting up a second monitor

[Jan Moren]

fre 2006-04-21 klockan 12:03 +1000 skrev James Gray:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:23 am, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> > James Gray wrote:
> > > Indeed - it IS possible but not normally handled "out of the box".  So be
> > > prepared to edit some text files and poke around the "back end" of
> > > Linux's GUI which is called the "X server".  Read on.
> >
> > No problem on editing text files, once someone tells me what to
> > change, in words that I can understand. Between you and Daniel
> > (and anyone else who is willing to talk at my level), I should be
> > able to work this out.
> >
> > > First - is it an nVidia or ATi chipset?  Something else?
> >
> > Ermmm... I haven't a clue. I'll try to find something that will
> > tell me.
> 
> No biggie - the "lspci" you quote below tells me it is an Intel Integrated 
> Graphics 855GM chipset.  I've never played with those, but we'll see if we 
> can get you sorted anyway :)

I have one of these as well.


> > I'll come back to this after I get the monitor working as a
> > clone. I think I understood (most of) what you said, which is
> > encouraging. :-)

I don't know how (or if) helpful this is, but to just use an external
monitor as a clone, I use a small app called "i855crt" (it's in the
Ubuntu repositories) to switch between LCD only, LCD and external
screen, and external screen only. 


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