[NTLUG:Discuss] 2 displays

[MadHat]

At 12:37 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, Allen Flick wrote:
>Well, let me throw uot my ignorance with a question, too.
>
>What about those many guys I've seen that take their laptops
>to conferences and hook up some output to the overhead
>display unit.  Then that person sits at the table or desk watching
>his/her laptop screen while everyone else in the big conferecne
>room are watching the video output being sent from the laptop
>through the overhead.
>
>Doesn't this hint at 2 video outputs?  One for the screen on the
>laptop and the other for VGA, or RGB, or something ??

You can output to both displays at the same time, but I don't know of a way 
to display different data to each output at the same time.  Basically it is 
a digital switch, that you can set to "LCD", "External" or "Both" in most 
cases.  I don't remember seeing one where the data displayed on one is 
different from the other.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

>Patrick Parks wrote:
>
> > Thanks MadHat, I had a feeling that was the answer, but could not find
> > it in the Hardware pages, thanks again :(
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org] On Behalf
> > Of MadHat
> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:02 AM
> > To: discuss at ntlug.org
> > Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] 2 displays
> >
> > At 06:46 AM 1/21/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >  > Is it possible to run two separate monitors, with two different  >
> > desktops, using a laptop with a VGA output and the laptop screen?
> >
> > No, it is the same device displaying the output.  It is not 2 display
> > devices. What appears on one will appear on the other.  Unless you have
> > a
> > laptop designed for it, but I am not aware of any laptops designed that
> > way.
> >
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