Dual monitor? Possible? How?

pmatos · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject: Dual monitor? Possible? How?

Hi all,

I'm using my laptop in my everyday work. But I'm mostly at home and I have a spare monitor (SAMTRON 76E) which was connected to a gentoo server I used to have but now it is free. I was thinking about connecting it to my PC and using as another desktop to which I could move freely. Using E16 so I though I could make it another desktop. Would it be possible? How? My laptop (Fujitsu-Siemens E7110) has a connection for another monitor but I don't know if it would be possible to use both (laptop monitor and extra monitor) at the same time or if this connection is to use one at a time...

Cheers,

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject:

pmatos,

Run lspci ansd post the line from the output that shows your VGA. It may be possible.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

pmatos · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject:

pmatos,

There is some useful information here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/25/2004/08/2/177913
I'm not heard any good things about ATI chip sets and I have nVidia myself.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

pmatos · Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:06 am Post subject: