[NTLUG:Discuss] 2 displays

[Allen Flick]

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 ??

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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