I have a Dell Latitude CPx 500, with an ATI Rage Mobility graphics card, and with Debian unstable installed, and XFree86 4 (although I had the same problems with potato and XF86 3.3.6).
I want to be able to have the display appear on the LCD screen, and the external display (a projector) at the same time. If I do Fn-F7 to switch between them, I can get one or the other but not both at the same time. Since I want to use the machine for lectures where I face a class with the machine in front of me, and the big screen behind, this is something of a problem. In windows, I can use the display settings tool to make both displays work at the same time. In the ATI Xfree86 docs, there appears to be an option to force the machine *not* to use both at the same time, claiming that it will default to using them both at the same time. Has anybody else encountered this? Any suggestions? -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902