On Fri, 12 May 2000 lbedford at wbtsystems.com wrote:
> This is for the NeoMaigc chipsets. I couldn't get it to work externally
> until I added the extern_disp option.
>
the neomagics are special because they're designed specifically for laptop
use. (ever seen a neomagic pci/agp card?)
> It may be different for other chipsets, but the software can change the
> display used.
>
i don't /think/ this is true for the majority of video chips. at least
not with XFree. the ATi Rage Mobility chips might have some extra
cleverness for handling a second display, but XFree doesn't support it.
(but Fn+F4 seems to handle it in hardware/bios on compaq + Rage mobility
anyway)
> L.
>
--paulj
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