Dual monitor working with intel 965

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It wasn't easy but I did overcame the default mirroring you get out of the box with an external monitor plugged into a laptop. If you are running an Intel chipset with the Intel driver my approach may work for you too. What I wanted was an extended X screen, basically the merging of my laptop and external display. I found bits and pieces of information online but none of the solutions worked on their own. You can't copy and paste everything I used, some of my xorg.conf file is specific to my configuration, but minor changes should get you similar results if you are running the latest Kubuntu Jaunty packages. Hope this helps others struggling to get dual monitors working. I'll try and put details on the wiki when I have more time.

Grant

You need to run xrandr after making the changes to your xorg configuration file.
xrandr --output VGA --preferred --right-of LVDS


Here is the contents of my xorg.conf file...

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Dell 2007WFP"
	Option     "DPMS"
	HorizSync   30-83
	VertRefresh 56-76
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Laptop Monitor"
	Option     "DPMS"
	HorizSync   28-80
	VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier   "External Screen"
	Device     "VGA"
	Monitor    "Dell 2007WFP"
	DefaultDepth  24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes     "1680x1050"
		Virtual	  2960 1050
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"VGA"
	Driver	"intel"
	BusId	"PCI:0:2:0"
	Option	"monitor-VGA" "Dell 2007WFP"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"LVDS"
	Driver	"intel"
	BusId	"PCI:0:2:1"
	Option	"monitor-LVDS" "Laptop Monitor"
EndSection