On 01/31/2011 04:45 PM, Gerrit de Jong wrote:
This means my laptop can do the job? (acer travelmate 5320 celeron 530
1,7 GHz) Just need to buy extra memory and then upgrade to 10.04.
In that case I will wait a little while before bying a desktop with two
screens.
Take note that some laptop video chipsets (nVidia) support separate
output for each display. That is, you can have a totally separate image
on the external DVI/VGA/HDMI port as on the built-in display panel.
(I've seen Linux take advantage of this even when the Windows drivers
can't!) This allows you to connect a larger external monitor and use it as:
- Additional desktop area
- Primary work area
- Compositor display only (especially if you have a video output jack.)
So you might be just fine with the machine you have, but you'll have to
do some experimenting. Google for xorg.conf multiple desktops or
multiple screens or desktop spanning, depending on what you want to do.
You'll likely have to hack the xorg.conf file manually.
Also note that if you configure separate X server displays for each,
KDE's screen config program gets horribly confused, so you'll need to
continue to administer it by directly editing xorg.conf.
Sincerely,
Sean M. Pappalardo
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