[ltp] advice/comments on the T60

[Phil]

Hi Jon

My use case is this:
(1) At work I use laptop (1400x1050) in a dock with external LCD display 
(1280x1024) - giving me two screens wide.
(2) Then travelling home use laptop alone (1400x1050).
(1) Then at home plug into a dock to provide same twin-screen display as 
at work.
(3) Then occasionally need to run a projector (1280x1024 or 1024x768) 
off external monitor port on laptop to give presentations.

This works completely seamlessly with Windoze. At one stage I had 
scenarios 1 & 2 working with FC5 and the proprietary ATI drivers (but 3 
didn't work), but after upgrading it to FC6 it no longer worked, and the 
latest ATI drivers no longer support my ATI Mobility FireGL 9000. I'm 
hoping a more modern thinkpad graphics card will have good support for 
twin-head. I don't mind having to restart the X-server to switch configs 
(although I'd rather not) but rebooting and/or reconfigurating X 
manually is a no-no.

Cheers
Phil


Jon Escombe wrote:
> Afraid I don't normally use an external display. I tried a quick test just now, and it appears Xgl confuses the aticonfig tool completely. However, with Xgl disabled it appeared to detect and switch displays fine. I set up an extended desktop across the displays with no problems, but didn't get as far as configuring individual resolutions etc. If there's a specific config you're interested in, I could probbaly try it this evening..
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> Regards,
> Jon.
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> Jon 
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> Do you get reliable twin-head display? This is a must-have for me and the ancient graphics card in my T40p just won't do it - hence still running XP (yeuch). I'm in the market for a T60 and reliable twin-head is the sole remaining stumbling block. 
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> Cheers 
> Phil 
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