Dual monitor possible?

[Mike Nixon]

Hi there,
 I also battled to get dual monitor working on my laptop.
However the ubuntu forum has a very easy-to-understand and step-by-step
howto on dual monitors which is worth a read:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1773624
Based on this, and with minimal cut-n-paste in my xorg.conf file I got
both clone and dual head working (not simultaneously!).

At the risk of being badly flamed, it's really worth having a look at
OpenSuse  10.2 (live cd).  It has built-in support for dual-head and is
*very* easy to use.   I strongly recommend that the gurus @ Ubuntu build
the same easy functionality into their next release ;-)

Ubuntu feisty works well for me on my thinkpad, and the Synaptic package
manager is a real plus.  However my experience with OpenSuse 10.2 on
this laptop was that is was *much* faster & dual-monitor control was
very good, but hibernate/suspend didn't work. So Ubuntu it is!
Cheers Mike