Dualhead Display

Bryce C plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
26 Mar 2003 21:06:05 -0700


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And way more expensive than just having a spare card laying around.

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 20:32, Gene Holmerud wrote:
> 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.
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> Mandrake install looks for dual ported Matrox cards,
> which is easier.
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> Gene
> --- Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net> 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.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
> > CoBryce Communications
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