Struggling with an extended desktop setup

It sucks to be on a laptop using Intel 945 GM. I currently have difficulty using an extended screen. Especially because the current LCD I have as extra LCD is a MAG. It seems that there is a problem detecting it and its proper resolution. Aside from that, I had to ask help from one of our sys ads in the office. I wanted to tweak something in xserver-xorg but I couldn’t and he had to edit the settings of my virtual screen. That was something I tried to do on the GUI tool but apparently it’s still lacking some features that would help me fix the settings. (But hey! At least there is now a GUI tool for Linux newbies. And that’s a really awesome thing.) Others who are on Acer laptops with Intel 965 drivers are lucky because they could have an extended desktop setup and still have Compiz!

So now I have to find someone who will trade monitors with me.

But still, for now, it is a pain.

And one more thing: I lost the ability to use the funky Compiz effects like magnifying the screen. Oh well. I could live without Compiz. (Ironic, considering I just started to appreciate it on a personal use level.)