Like others have said, there are several options: 1) TwinView with a supported Nvidia card and the Nvidia closed-source drivers
2) use Xinerama with two or more physical video cards (e.g. 1 PCI-Express, 1 PCI, 1 AGP......) That said, I don't use mirrored mode on my 945GM. It's really dual-display with different resolutions on the two displays. I run the Eclipse debug perspective on my external 1680x1050 22" LCD, and the run window on the notebook's built-in display. I tell ya, Eclipse at 1680x1050 is teh win. :-) That said, 2x 22" is too much already, the amount of screen greatly exceeds your visual field. So at most I would probably do 2x 19" for a developer desktop. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Johann Tagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Daniel Escasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I'm not mistaken, Eric's asking about multiple monitors for a > > single box, not necessarily a laptop. And even if I *am* mistaken, I'd > > be interested in what's needed for multiple monitors anyway :). The > > idea is that you've got two or more monitors, each displaying > > something different, and giving you the ability to drag windows from > > one monitor to another. > > Yes, this is what I need to know too. My current laptop had a licensed XP, > and I am easily able to connect a second monitor and drag stuff from one > monitor to another using the bundled software. I got a new one, which I > want to use Linux on, but I'd like to still enjoy the productivity benefits > of having an extended desktop. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
