Got dual monitors work simultaneously on my system. As my thinkpad has a radeon 7500 card (or 7000? not sure), I can use MergedFB option in controlling the two monitors with xorg. The result is quite good. My xorg.conf is
Section "ServerLayout"
       Identifier     "X.org Configured"
       Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
       InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
       RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
       ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
#       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW/"
       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/"
       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
#       FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
       FontPath     "/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/5.2/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1/"
       FontPath     "/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/5.2/SystemFiles/Fonts/BDF/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
       Load  "extmod"
       Load  "glx"
#       Load  "dri"
       Load  "dbe"
       Load  "record"
       Load  "xtrap"
       Load  "type1"
       Load  "freetype"
       Load  "radeon"
       Load  "drm"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
       Mode   0666
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier  "Keyboard0"
       Driver      "keyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier  "Mouse0"
       Driver      "mouse"
       Option      "Protocol" "auto"
       Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
       Option      "Buttons" "5"
       Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
       Identifier   "MonitorLCD"
       VendorName   "IBM"
       ModelName    "Thinkpad"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
       Identifier   "MonitorCRT"
       VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
       ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
       Option     "AGPMode"                    "4"
       Option     "AGPFastWrite"               "yes"
       Option     "EnablePageFlip"             "yes"
       Option     "DDCMode"                    "yes"
       Option     "MonitorLayout"              "LVDS,CRT"
       Option     "MergedFB" "True"
       Option     "CRT2Position"       "Rightof"
       Identifier  "Card0"
       Driver      "radeon"
       VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
       BoardName   "Radeon Mobility M6 LY"
       BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
       Screen       0
EndSection
Section "Device"
       Identifier  "Card1"
       Driver      "radeon"
       VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
       BoardName   "Radeon Mobility M6 LY"
       BusID       "PCI:1:0:1"
       Screen       1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
       Identifier "Screen0"
       Device     "Card0"
       Monitor    "MonitorLCD"
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     1
               Modes   "1024x768"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     4
               Modes   "1024x768"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     8
               Modes   "1024x768"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     15
               Modes   "1024x768"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     16
               Modes   "1024x768"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     24
               Modes   "1024x768"
       EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
       Identifier "Screen1"
       Device     "Card1"
       Monitor    "MonitorCRT"
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     1
               Modes   "1280x1024"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     4
               Modes   "1280x1024"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     8
               Modes   "1280x1024"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     15
               Modes   "1280x1024"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     16
               Modes   "1280x1024"
       EndSubSection
       SubSection "Display"
               Viewport   0 0
               Depth     24
               Modes   "1280x1024"
       EndSubSection
EndSection
some of the lines may not necessary. As it works, I don't bother to remove those trivial lines.
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