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[Patrick K <patricktanyako@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I think my fix was just a hack.  I'm still able to have two
separate screens (non-overlapping) with this setup.  Once the virtual
line is in, then I'm able to use System-->Preference-->Screen Resolution
to modify my monitors so that they're not overlapping.  I use the
program to place the two screens on top of each other, so I can move
windows between them.  I have a 1650x1050 monitor at home that I attach
to the EEE.  luckily, I can put the monitor on top of my EEE, and both
monitors fit within the virtual size that I specify (EEE at 1024x600,
external at 1650x1050 on top of the EEE monitor).  I've also read that
with this particular chipset, you are not able to set the virtual to
anything larger than 2048x2048.

I haven't looked into the properly setting the monitors as 1 and 2 yet.
Anyone else have knowledge on how this works?

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Extended Desktop can only be cloned.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263509
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Status in Ubuntu Eee: New

Bug description:
You can not enable Extended Desktop.  You can only clone the screens, since X is not recognizing a larger screen than 1024x1024.  This is caused by the xorg.conf file missing a virtual line for the screen.  Can someone add the following line to the gold release, so  that extended desktop will be available.  The line needed is the "Virtual" line

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth   24
		Modes "1024x600" "800x600"
		Virtual 2048 2048
	EndSubSection
EndSection