external monitor from a laptop

[Jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

I wish I still had the laptop.  All I remember now is that I plugged it
in
and it seemed to work for all the various combinations I tried.  And I
tried
just about everything.  I was using a Dell CPx laptop and Viewsonic 17"
monitor.  Both could handle pretty good resolution.

I guess it is possible I didn't try different resolutions, but I can't
seeing
me letting things well enough along just because it worked one way ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gerry.feldman at compaq.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:03 AM
To: Jack Coats
Subject: RE: external monitor from a laptop


I'm curious how you set up your laptop to display on both the LCD and
the external monitor at different resolutions.

On 25 Jul 2001, at 15:52, Jack Coats wrote:

> Yes, I did.  Nice setup too.  Not quite as good as the Sun with 2 21"
> monitors I had, but nice anyway :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-discuss at Blu.Org [mailto:owner-discuss at Blu.Org]On Behalf Of
> Jerry Feldman
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:04 PM
> To: discuss at Blu.Org
> Subject: RE: external monitor from a laptop
>
>
> But, you could not use the laptop screen and the same time you used
> the external monitor at the higher resolution?
>
> On 25 Jul 2001, at 12:15, Jack Coats wrote:
>
> > I forget the driver my Dell laptop had, but I could actually use it
as
> > two
> > separate screens, with different resolutions, either in Linux or
> Win98.
> > I had a fairly good external monitor that I could drive much harder
> than
> > the on-board display, but they still worked together.  If I just
> closed
> > the top of the laptop, the external worked well at a higher
resolution
> > than
> > the on board display could use.
> >
> > I hope you have the sae good luck with yours.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-discuss at Blu.Org [mailto:owner-discuss at Blu.Org]On Behalf
Of
> > Robert Schick
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 7:25 AM
> > To: discuss at Blu.Org
> > Subject: external monitor from a laptop
> >
> >
> > List- I have a Gateway Solo 3150 running RH 6.2. Because it has a
> > NeoMagic
> > driver, I'm using XF86 to drive the x-server. The screen, however,
is
> > quite
> > small and I'm looking to buy an external monitor to make life easier
> on
> > my
> > eyes. Before I kick down the $, any advice about setting up an
> external
> > monitor? Is it easily supported? The resolution of my laptop is 800
x
> > 600;
> > can one send a feed to the external monitor at the monitor's
> resolution
> > even if it exceeds the laptops? Thanks, Rob
> >
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> >
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