[ILUG] [OT] Dumb newbie X question

[Sean]

Kenn Humborg wrote something:
{ On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 12:37:24PM +0000, D ONeill wrote:
{ > Hello Ken:
{ 
{ Please turn on word wrap in your mail software.
{ 
{ > Under Windows (which I try to avoid using at all costs,) I am able 
{ > to run the LCD & an external monitor simultaneously--at either the 
{ > same time or at different resolutions.
{ 
{ On the laptops I've used, switching between LCD, VGA or LCD&VGA
{ was via magic key sequence that was dealt with in hardware, with
{ no help by the video driver.

  Haven't used a laptop for a while, but I do recall on the IBM600 models,
  XFree86 wouldn't support this feature.  Ended up downloading a free binary
  from matrox(?) which did the trick.

  What graphics chipset has the laptop ?  Perhaps a commercial (perhaps free)
  binary may help.

Sean.
.

{ 
{ Your laptop sounds different.  What happens when you have a different
{ resolution on the LCD and VGA and you run them simultaneously?  Does
{ the Windows task bar stretch fully across both displays?
{ 
{ > I'd like to do the same thing under Linux, but it doesn't recognise 
{ > the external monitor. I'd be happy enough to get it going at all. 
{ > Figured out how to run the external or LCD alone, but not both 
{ > together. 
{ 
{ What's your normal method of switching between LCD and VGA?
{ 
{ Later,
{ Kenn
{ 
{ 
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