[ale] dual-headed X11 via a laptop?

[Dow Hurst]

Your GF 4 chipset from Nvidia is supported by the Nvidia driver.  It 
will do amazing dual head configuration for you.  All you have to do is 
configure the driver to display to both the LCD and the external VGA 
port.  You will have an accelerated OpenGL enabled single desktop 
stretched across both displays.  This is not Xinerama even though that 
can be used when hardware acceleration isn't desired.  Get the pdf on 
the nvidia driver from www.nvidia.com downloads and read up on the 
configuration of the driver.  I've posted my XF86Config file on the list 
so you should be able get it thru Google.  (I don't have it available at 
the moment)

If you need more help, I can post it again tomorrow.
Dow


John Wells wrote:

>I have a Dell Inspiron i8200 with a Geforce 4 32 mb video card.
>
>Seems I've read in the past that it was possible to configure laptops as
>dual-headed displays (i.e., an attached monitor and the laptop screen
>serving as two separate desktops), as opposed to simply having the laptop
>screen duplicated on the connected monitor.
>
>Is this truly possible, or am I mistaken?  Anyone doing/done it?
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
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