[ltp] How to do dual-screen with an open-source driver on a T61p ? (nVidia)

[Alex Deucher]

On Dec 19, 2007 6:06 AM, Francois Fleuret <francois.fleuret@idiap.ch> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am the happy owner of a T61p and the only remaining issue that
> really annoys me is the impossibility _so far_ to have a dual-screen
> display (i.e. internal LCD + external VGA) without using the nvidia
> proprietary drivers.
>
> Is there any way to do it with the VESA driver (I guess not) or with
> the NV driver (I presume not) ?
>
> Or if really this is impossible, what is the less painful method to
> install the nvidia proprietary drivers on a Debian experimental ?

the open source nv driver supports dualhead on g80 based GPUs via
randr.  nouveau also has support for xrandr, but it's pretty unstable
at the moment IIRC.

Alex