Dualview settings on Thinkpad T61p for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Well, this is only used as a more specific instructions on how to deal with the multimonitor issues in Ubuntu.

The brief idea can be referenced to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaMultiMonitors

The problem with the post is that it assumes you will obtain the nvidia-settings once you installed the nvidia restricted drivers on your laptop, but unfortunately, that is not gonna happen.

After you enabled the restricted drivers, you may also do the following:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

This will allow you to have access to the settings. Then, in your terminal, input:

sudo nvidia-settings

You may want to access the settings with root, because any changes in here will be applied to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. It won't let you change the settings without the root permission.

That is pretty much what you need to know. GL!