On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:55:17PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:43 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Matt Price wrote: > > > > >On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Matt Price wrote: > > > >>Another idea might be to configure your laptop to use the projector as a > > >>second head, and configure X as a dual-head setup. > > >> > > >> > > > > > >so, question: Is it actually possible to run a different X session on > > >the projector? > > > > > > > Having never had a laptop I could experiment much with, I don't know. I > > came across something last week that led me to believe that a laptop > > essentially has a "second video card" which it uses for the external > > monitor, but I briefly experimented with an older laptop that led me to > > believe that was not the case at least with this laptop. > > Most newer laptops which use ATI radeon or nvidia chipsets have this > dual head capability. > > X does not currently seem flexible enough to switch between single head > and dual head on the fly though, so you either have to have dual head > running all the time, or restart X with a different XF86Config file when > you want to do this nifty sort of thing. > > If someone came up with a way to make the second head map directly to a > virtual desktop, that would be massively sweet...
yeah, this is what I want. how would one start? Where's brandon when we need him??? m > > -Mark > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
