[ale] laptop with dual monitor

[Dow Hurst]

I am working (sort of working) on a Dell Inspiron 8500 that has the 
Nvidia Geforce 4 4200 Go chip.  The Linux load is SuSE 8.2 and talk 
about a sweet install!  Anyway, you are recommended to use the standard 
Nvidia driver install, which is different as of the past month or so, to 
install the IA32 driver instead a SuSE configured driver.  I haven't had 
a chance to try out the dual head, but with the SCPM tool I should be 
able to setup dual head situation or maybe even triple head, all with 3d 
accel.  I'll post what I get working.  I know with the new driver the 
WXGA resolution of 1280x800 works good.  I will try the higher 
resolutions sometime soon.  The support by Nvidia for Linux is superb 
and I really don't mind the closed source as long as the stuff works 
well.  I haven't had a X driver crash ever since I switched to Nvidia's 
binaries this year, so that shows some decent debugging and attention to 
the drivers.
Dow


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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