What is the best way to work with two monitors from a laptop?

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Date: 29 Nov 2004 12:14:20 -0800

I'm not trying to use two monitors at once, but rather get my laptop
to work with a monitor at work and at home. I have done this before
many times, but now I am having trouble first with FC2 and now with
FC3.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8200, which has an NVIDIA video card. The
laptop in standalone mode works fine. At home, I have a Sylvania F97
monitor which I use with a switchbox, and that worked fine when I
originally installed Fedora Core 3. But at work, I have an emachines
monitor (eview 171), which my laptop did not detect correctly. I
switched down to run level 3, ran setup in text mode, and was able to
get my machine working with the emachines monitor. But now I have to
do that every time I shut down the machine. I am using xorg.conf, and
I have tried installing the nvidia drivers from their site when I was
on FC2. Even copying my original xorg.conf back into place when I get
home does not solve the problem. The only way I can get the monitor to
work in graphics mode when I first boot up is to start in text mode,
then run setup and X Configuration, then run startx to enter graphics
mode. It seems to me that running setup does something other than
change xorg.conf? Does anyone have any idea what is going on, and I
how I can solve this problem? My goal, of course, is to not have to
run setup to get my laptop to work with multiple monitors, one at
work, one at home.

I've been using Linux for awhile, but have never encountered this kind
of problem before.

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