I can just plug it into the VGA port on the side of the laptop.

What do I need to do to get AntiX to recognize and use both at the same time? When I plug it in, nothing happens, but if I logout and back in, everything moves to the second srceen and the laptop screen goes dark.

So I tried configuring it via control center/sessions/screen resolution, but if I try to activate the LVDS it says:

XRandR failed:
XRandR returned error code 1: xrandr: cannot find crtc for output LVDS-1

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Solution was to connect screen and reboot, then change in Control center...

I tried logging out, and then trying to create an xorg.conf, but neither worked.

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Any ideas? Inxi -Fxz output follows:

$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: dv9917 Kernel: 4.4.10-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.9.3) Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
Distro: antiX-16_386-full Berta Cáceres 26 June 2016
Machine: Device: laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv9700 Notebook PC v: Rev 1
Mobo: Quanta model: 30D1 v: 85.26 BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.30 date: 04/24/2008
Battery BAT0: charge: 38.7 Wh 100.0% condition: 38.7/60.0 Wh (65%) model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: Full
CPU: Dual core AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-62 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 6400
clock speeds: max: 2100 MHz 1: 1600 MHz 2: 1600 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA C67 [GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M] bus-ID: 00:12.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1680x1050@59.95hz, 1024x768@50.00hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV67 GLX Version: 2.1 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card NVIDIA MCP67 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:07.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.10-antix.1-486-smp
Network: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP67 Ethernet driver: forcedeth port: 30f8 bus-ID: 00:0a.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
driver: ath5k bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 536.2GB (6.5% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS725050A7 size: 500.1GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: SanDisk_SSD_U110 size: 32.0GB
ID-3: USB /dev/sdc model: UDisk size: 4.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15G used: 12G (89%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
ID-2: swap-1 size: 6.19GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb7
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 57.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 151 Uptime: 5 days Memory: 636.4/3031.3MB Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.3.21
demo@dv9917:~