LCD + external monitor as one big monitor in T21. How?

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piotreckh · #1 Post by **piotreckh** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:47 pm

I've read in thinkwiki that IBM T21 supports using an external monitor plus the LCD as one big monitor. How to configure that? I haven't found any manuals in google yet... I'm using Debian Testing.

#2 Post by **BillMorrow** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:15 pm

it can do it with windows..
W2k and XP..
not sure about linux or how that would be set up..

djpharoah · #3 Post by **djpharoah** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:19 pm

You have to configure you xorg.conf file.
I had this issue before as I wanted to clone my laptop onto my CRT monitor.

Best thing to do is check on the debian forums.

piotreckh · #4 Post by **piotreckh** » Tue May 16, 2006 2:01 pm

I don't want to clone picture from LCD to external monitor, I want to have diffrent picture on each monitror. I know that I've to configure xorg.conf. I don't know how. I don't know what I should write there.

FuguTabetai · #5 Post by **FuguTabetai** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:30 am

You will have to do some research, it is kind of complicated.

You can try to set up xinerama for dual-head support, but if your machine has a radeon card, then you have to set up the option in the xorg.conf according to the radeon man page. I took a stab at it once, and generally it is non-obvious how to do it correctly.

piotreckh · #6 Post by **piotreckh** » Wed May 17, 2006 7:07 am

My IBM T21 have S3 Savage IX8 and I've heard that it can work (look there: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/S3_Savage_IX8)but I haven't found any howto.
I have T21 with 14,1' screen with 768x1024 resolution and Nec Multisync 1970V as external monitor. I tried running it on Windows but in doesn't work.

LCD + external monitor as one big monitor in T21. How?

LCD + external monitor as one big monitor in T21. How?

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