I'm pretty sure both get their input from the same video device though.
Yes, they do. I have a broken laptop that has the video control chip
busted... No VIDEO!!!! (Ive tried)
Jamie
On Monday 14 May 2001 08:36 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:47:57PM -0700, Timothy L. Bolz wrote:
> > Ok this is for Cory and others who use laptops.
> > Could you plug a monitor into your laptop and have a different screen
> > than what on the laptop? I guess it would be like dual monitors. If it
> > can be different can windows do this? I don't know that much about
> > laptops just that you can plug a monitor, keyboard and mouse and use it
> > like a desktop. ~
> > Tim
>
> As my laptop screen is broken, I use a monitor plugged into my laptop.
> I had to set up X to work with the monitor instead of the LCD.
> The BIOS is supposed to detect if a monitor is attached, and use the
> monitor only, but sometimes both come on (ooh... pretty pinks and neon
> orange and green streaked across dmesg...). It is also possible to set
> the BIOS to use both the screen and monitor. I'm pretty sure both get
> their input from the same video device though.
> There is kernel support for dual headed video cards, which would
> probably be easier than using 2 video cards.
>
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