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Author: Gene Holmerud
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Subject: Dualhead Display
The Xinerama HOW-TO is quite through and doable,
albiet time-consuming. It includes a step to find the
hardware addresses of any video card.

Mandrake install looks for dual ported Matrox cards,
which is easier.

Gene
--- Bryce C <> wrote:
> Does anyone know it it's possible at the hardware
> level to have 2 PCI
> cards for dual-head display or does one need to have
> a PCI and an AGP.
> I've tried getting WinBLOWS to setup dual-mode but
> the other device
> "can't start". I'll be getting started on trying
> w/XFree86 but just
> wanted to know.
> Also, what's the best way to setup dualhead X? I'd
> like to have two
> different "instances" if possible. That is, 1 screen
> be an X client (X
> -query x.x.x.x) and the other be the local X session
> with the
> windowmanager etc on the local machine.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Bryce C <>
> CoBryce Communications
>


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