[H-GEN] Dual Montiors

[ben.carlyle at invensys.com]

Anthony,





Anthony Irwin <anthonyi at toolboxsoftware.com.au>
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> I have a laptop with Debian unstable and an external monitor. I was
> wondering if it is possible to treat the laptop lcd screen as one 
monitor
> and an external monitor as a second monitor and use them to display
> different information.

You'll only be able to do this if
1) The laptop has two video cards, one for the internal monitor and one 
for the external one
or
2) the laptop video card can behave like two video cards.

Most laptops (as far as I'm aware) only have one video card and it's only 
the output of that single card that's being directed to one place or the 
other, or both simultaneously. If that's the case with your laptop you'll 
be out of luck.

Benjamin.

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