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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Dualscreen with laptops (Fwd: Re: KOffice-1.2 release schedule)
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-04-01 15:24:22
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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 <xpert@XFree86.Org> 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

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