I too am trying various two-headed approaches. The details are well
discribed in the Xinerama HOWTOs. It's about a 1-step process, but
worth it.
I previously had it working (RH 7.1 & W98SE) on my 233 MHz Pentium
that had two similar ATI brand PCI cards. When I upgraded to an AMD
900, the motherboard has an on-board SiS AGP. M$win works with one
ATI & the SiS, but Linux will do either one, but not both. I bought
a Matrox G450 dual-port card and the problems began. W98 does not
like it, and I haven't done the Xinerama config (I'm moving to
Mandrake 8.1, too).
So check the HOWTOs, but my poor mixed-card experience and the fact
that Mandrake actually specs Matrox (on the box) for dual-head use
tend to say you may be disappointed.
Gene
From: Mark Anderson <stoneaglewolf@yahoo.com>
Subject: Dual monitors question
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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Date sent: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 09:30:23 -0800 (PST)
> I have an AMD 1.5ghz with 1.5mb of ram. I installed a AGP gforce 2 mmx card with a 21" compac
> monitor. I am curious if I can install a generic PCI or ISA video card and 15" monitor. Will I be
> able to control the resolutions of each monitor seperately.
>
> Mark
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