Laptop Dock Station Resolutions

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:01:26PM -0600, Lewt @ Linux Warcry wrote:
> One of the greater fustrations with our laptops at work using Linux is 
> the innability for us to have our resolution go up when plugging it into 
> the docking station..  Would that be a feature RedHat could build such 
> as a daemon that would restart X with a secondary config for the 
> connected monitor?  Or would that be in the realm of whatever X server 
> we jump to if we jump to anything?

How does the docking station appear on such systems - as another video card or
as the same screen as the LCD ?