I have Mandrake 10.2 64 bit edition beta on my laptop, a Uniwill 64 bit AMD. In addition to my laptop monitor, I have a second flat screen monitor that I like to use in a dual monitor configuration while in my room. Currently when I plug in the second LCD monitor, the screen defaults over to the second monitor and my Laptop monitor turns off, how do I make it so that the image extends over two monitors? Both monitors work fine by themselves and I know the laptop is capable of supporting dual monitors as it worked correctly with Windows XP. The current driver for the video card is Radeon (fglrx)

I have tried to use fglrxconfig or fglrxinfo as other users have suggested to me, but neither of those works, I assume because of how fglrx is compiled into the mandrake installation that mandrake program should I use/ what file should i edit in order to allow me to work with both screens?

~Lyuokdea

I believe you would edit the xorg.conf file, located in /etc/X11

Other than that, I can't help you with dual monitors. I HAD dual monitors working in Mandrake 9.1 and it worked fine.

If you have a function button for your monitor press that and see what it does, It sounds like your set to use one or the other and not both if the laptop screen is turning off. Also you may check the BIOS for any settings there.

If you get it to where the external monitor is black when it is plugged in and enabled in the bios then that probably means you need to start an Xserver on it. Until then I wuold say you laptop is setup to use one or the other in the bios.

When I plug an external into mine it duplicates the screen on the laptop, both on. If you want the large desktop that's in your X configuration. I do not think mine supports that option. It's just another video output on the same X server. Not sure about your model.

Sounds like what was happening with my laptop in fedora, for me it was a bios setting. Look around in there, good luck!