[H-GEN] Dual Montiors

[Andrew Duncan]

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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.

I'm not sure you can do this with Linux, however I've done this exact thing
using Windows XP.  I was once upon a time considering three monitor output
using an s-video -> VGA adaptor.

With XP, the configuration is simple, however I'm not sure the steps you
would take for Debian, but I assume it's possible.

> If this is possible could someone please offer google search terms as I
> don't know what to search, also any tips would be good.

If you find some good links, please email them to me.  I'm soon going to
install various Linux distros on my laptop and would appreciate the
information greatly.

Andy.

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