[ale] laptop with dual monitor

[Geoffrey]

There's quite a bit of support for the dual head on ati and nvidia 
cards.  You'll need to do the research though, and realize that often 
the card in the laptop is a variation of the one you get in a desktop.

Nvidia has support through proprietary drivers, ati through the the 
gatos project.  Check out:

http://gatos.sourceforge.net/

for more info on gatos.

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> Lots of laptops can support dual monitors, now.  In windows, if you plug a 
> monitor into the back you can get two displays--one on the LCD and a 
> different one on the monitor.  Windows can be dragged from one display to 
> the other.
> 
> I know that in general, X under Linux supports this behavior, too, but you 
> have to have the right video card.  Does anyone have a particular 
> laptop/notebook model, or chipset, that they can connfirm has support for 
> this?
> 
> If I can find a decent laptop that supports this I can almost definitely 
> get several important converts to linux at work.  There are several people 
> who would like to use Linux, but Linux can't do dual monitors on our 
> Compaq Armadas.  But it is time to upgrade, so if I can find a laptop that 
> works I'll get several people to at least try it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
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