[PLUG] Thinkpad T30, Dock & DVI

Rogan Creswick creswick at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 18:45:32 UTC 2006


On 2/1/06, Dwight Hubbard <dwight.hubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A related question.. is it possible to drive two monitors with a
> > T-series laptop (a T42p, specifically) in a dock of some sort, with
> > out using the LCD on the laptop?  This is the only thing stopping me
> > from ditching my desktop entirely -- I want a dual monitor system,
> > where both monitors are stand-alone (eg: both CRTs in my current
> > setup).
>
> It's possible because Windows XP drive two monitors connected to the
> dock instead of the laptop LCD and one monitor.

Oooh... what dock / laptop are you using?  Does the dock have two svga
connectors, or does it use a dvi-split cable of some sort?

Thanks!
Rogan

>
> However, I have never gotten it to work under Linux :-(
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