I forgot to say what the lines you have to add to xorg.conf are in the last
email. Basically, once once you have your 2 screens set up, one for each
video card/monitor combo, let's call them screen0 and screen1, in the
ServerLayout section, you would do something like:
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
LeftOf can also be RightOf, and some other options but most likely you want
one of those.
Also you will probably want
Option "Xinerama" "On"
Option "Clone" "Off"
Turning Clone to On will make it so the same thing is shown on both
displays. Typically not what you want.
-NF
On 5/29/05, Nicholas Finzer <nfinzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's really not hard to do. Lots of good tutorials on google. Search for
> xinerama. Basically, with 2 cards and 2 monitors, it's just extra lines in
> xorg.conf or whatever your X config file is. You'll probably want things
> like Gnome or KDE and X11 compiled with xinerama support. I think a lot of
> binary distros have it included by default. If you use gentoo, just add
> "xinerama" to your USE flags in /etc/make.conf before you install said
> applications.
> The gentoo tutorial mentioned before is good. I am a fan of gentoo, best
> distro ever. :)
> NF
>
> On 5/29/05, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From the uncle... OK guys I hope I did not make a mistake but I think
> > you
> > get a pretty good idea that my nephew is a "hot convert"...
> >
> > On 5/29/05, T Michael Hast <evylrobot19@cox.net> wrote:
> > > Hey, everybody. My uncle who lives in Florida convinced me to holler
> > at
> > > you. I've got Knoppix running on an old 500mh Celeron, and am
> > impressed
> > > and even thrilled with how modern it runs. I'm kind of trying to see
> > > exactly what this thing is capable of before I get an updated machine.
> > > How difficult is it to set up a multi-screen system? I'd like to put
> > > two crt's on this thing. Probably running seperate desktops. I don't
> > > really know where to start, seeing how I am a newbie. Any help would
> > be
> > > appreciated. Thanks, Michael
> >
> >
> > Now, putting replies where they should be...
> >
> > Here are some for you to take a look at...
> > http://ghj.sunsite.dk/index.php?1=articles/1/dual_head.html&article=1
> > http://aufrecht.org/blog/one-entry?entry_id=23251
> >
> >
> > Google is your friend here.
> >
> > --
> > Chuck Hast
> > To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> > "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> >
> > out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> > and twisted metal."
> >
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