[plug] external projector on a laptop

[William Kenworthy]

not true for all - my sony uses a windos driver to do it - under linux I
need a separate utility, however thats for an intel chipset.

It sounds like you have xinerama running.  Remove any reference to it
from your xorg.conf and set it up in clone mode.  Then use the thinkpads
hotkeys to switch displays if thats what they have.

There are plenty of sample xorg.confs on the linux laptop site you can
use for a template, or read up on it using "man xorg.conf"

BillK


On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:38 +0800, tim wrote:
> most laptops don't need software drivers to do mirror monitors, they
> usually just have a function key to turn on the external vga port.
> 
> On 8/7/07, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         I'm wanting to set up my laptop to work with an external
>         projector.  I
>         have an nvidia card with the binary drivers.  So far so
>         good.  The
>         problem comes when I setup twinview.  It treats the two
>         monitors as one 
>         big desktop- not what I want, particularly as they have
>         different
>         resolutions, and the projector will rarely be connected.  I'd
>         like the
>         two displays to be independent, but still be able to move
>         windows
>         between the two if need be.  What is the recommended solution
>         to this? 
>         
>         Thanks,
>         Tim Bowden
>         
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