From koffice Mon Apr 01 15:24:22 2002 From: Vadim Plessky Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 15:24:22 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: Dualscreen with laptops (Fwd: Re: KOffice-1.2 release schedule) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=101767466108694 On Friday 29 March 2002 12:58, Lukas Smith wrote: | > It depends on the laptop (video chipset). I have seen some that | | allow | | > separate displays, although most of them don't. | | Actually most laptop chipsets support multi monitoring these days. The | question is just how good the driver support is etc. | The situation is far from perfect on Windows (only Win98 seems to have | it worked out across the board) and it does not seem to be any better on | Linux .. atleast for laptops. | Matrox cards are known to be good with multi-screen support, but unfortunately Matrox doesn't manufacture chips for laptops, only for Desktops. Anyway, I think you should be able to make dual-screen setup with latest ATI chips (Radeon) and fresh XFree86 (XF 4.1, 4.2) Best place to ask such question is Xpert mailing list. | If you want a feature like having additional notes on the laptop TFT you | will need this feature. | | I recently posted a question on slashdot about this: | http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/24/1453223 | | Best regards, | Lukas Smith | smith@dybnet.de -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/