Screen resolution & laptop

Jamie Bohr jamiebohr at gmail.com
Tue May 2 23:08:38 UTC 2006


That is correct, spanning my desktop would be nice.

On 5/2/06, Jonathan Davis <davisje50 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In my experience, and this is just me, I've had problems with getting
> the various laptop video cards to perfrom in a normal dual-monitor
> setup.  It's pretty easy to get them to mirror the signal to the
> separate monitor, all you usually have to do is plug it in or make
> minor changes to your xorg.conf.  But usually they are problematic
> with that.  I have a separate pci video card in my dock to run my LCD
> as a second display.  If someone has had good experience in doing this
> with any of the various Dell laptops I too would be interested in
> learning how.  Otherwise you can get a cheap little pci card to put in
> the dock.  I take you are interested in spanning your desktop over
> both displays?
>
> On 5/2/06, Jamie Bohr <jamiebohr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, it is an nVidia Corporation NV41 [Quadro FX Go1400]
> >
> >
> > On 5/2/06, Jonathan Davis <davisje50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What type of video card do you have in the laptop?
> > >
> > > On 5/2/06, Jamie Bohr < jamiebohr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I have a Dell M70 (great system) laptop and a Dell LCD display.  I
> am
> > having
> > > > problems with display resolutions and getting the perfect setup.
> > > >
> > > > Can some one tell me if I can do the following?
> > > >
> > > > I would like to use the both displays when I have the laptop docked,
> the
> > > > windows users at work can do it so I would like to as well.  Also
> when
> > the
> > > > laptop is not
> > > > docked will it think there is a second display?
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