Subject: Re[2]: dual head with powerbook pismo
From: Matthew D. Wood (woodm@equire.com)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 11:36:10 MST
I don't know about unix or mol, but I know for a fact that you can use
a monitor and the lcd on a laptop under normal mac-os. (I saw it with
mac OS 8, but I'm pretty sure it works with 7 and up.)
Tuesday, January 16, 2001, 11:24:51 AM, you wrote:
DP> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, florian wrote:
>> sorry if this is a bit off-topic for this list. but does anybody know if its
>> possible to have two monitors running on a powerbook using linux? i heard
>> that with xfree86 4.0 its possible to do that on a pc.. but also on a
>> powerbook?
DP> On a notebook? I assume you mean, have the internal LCD display and a
DP> monitor connected to the same notebook?
DP> Unless the Pismo has a completely separate display controller for the
DP> external display (which isn't likely), I highly doubt it. Can it be done
DP> on the MacOS side? If not, then you certainly can't do it on the Linux
DP> side.
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