[CLUE-Tech] Tuesday night's presentation - gentoo

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:18:55 -0600
Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:

> David Anselmi wrote:
> 
> > Collins Richey wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> Per another suggestion, I plugged in a real live monitor for a
> >test, and> the monitor can't cope with the signal the laptop is
> >sending, either.> The laptop screen must be a lot more tolerant,
> >because I've never had> any flickering, etc., under X.
> >
> >
> > Another possibility is that the laptop isn't sending a signal to the
> > 
> > monitor.  The projector originally said "no signal", right?  As 
> > opposed to "out of range".  That isn't definitive but at least no
> > one else has suggested it.
> 
> Good point Dave,
> 
> Many laptops have to be told in BIOS to do "dual"  monitors or there's
> a keyboard combination that enables the additional output.  Usually
> that key combo cycles through turning off the internal monitor and
> turning on the external, then to dual-mode, then back to internal
> only. 
> 
> What type of video card is it?  Some of the more modern laptops treat 
> the external port as a completely separate desktop and you have to set
> 
> up X to drive both.  (Rare-er than the first but starting to become 
> popular.) 
> 

1. Per information posted earlier, it's a mobile ATI Radeon IGP320 video
chip. 
2. Please elaborate on the "...treat the external port as a completely
separate desktop...", preferrably with examples or references. 

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