intel dual monitor question
 

wow, this is the first thing I not seen ubuntu 7.10 pick up and run with, I have an IBM t61 laptop mounted to a dock with one dvi and one vga port on the back of it. On XP I connected one monitor to each port and blamo I had dual monitor support. I did a search but did not find anything like my setup. Most were ATI issues, well this laptop has an INTEL graphics card. When I click on screen and graphics in the system directory. I get this driver info INTEL - Experimental modesetting driver, on the screen tab the second monitor tab is greyed out and alas my monitor is black.

Help please, I really need dual monitor support

Please help

Kezz

ps. it will also not allow me to turn up the Eyecandy.

My intel graphix card is picked up as intel modesetting...as well. I am having the same trouble trying to configure a dual-monitor set-up. If i plug in my second monitor(crt) on my dell laptop, the screen switches over to the second monitor.

I tried it first, with the second monitor plugged in, and the user/password screen was displayed on both monitors...next, once the desktop loaded...only the second monitor displayed.

What are the terminal commands or How-to's to configure this card to split the card?

btw, im running ubuntu 7.10 (switched over a week ago)

My first post!

Pz,
Tpo

Encounterd problems as well.. Using a GeForce2 MX400 with TV-out, I was able to use this setup for DVD-watching purposes under windows2k (showing the movies on my television, plain CRT panasonic).

However, I can't seem to get the screen-setup right, and apparently I'm not alone..

Also: how can I add a given resolution (in my case: PAL) to the choice-list?


Any reason why ubuntu switches to vesa generic videodrivers instead of using the 'nv' nvidia drivers?