[NCLUG] Dual head video under linux?

[Mike W Jensen]

I recently replaced my Voodoo 3 and Radeon 7000 combo for a Geforec 4 
440mx-se.  I got the nvidia kernel module installed.  I am having problems 
getting twin view to work, and havent found any thing that has been _lots_ of 
help online.  Dose anyone have a working XF86Config file they could send me?  
Mine is all funky.  Thank you
On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:20 pm, Mark Fassler wrote:
> I have a dual-monitor system.  I'm using two video cards:  an Nvidia
> GeForce4 and a Voodoo 3 PCI.
>
> Not really any caveats, really.  You just set it up.
>
> You can use xinerama (an extension to XFree86) that just sticks both
> screens together to make them look like one, big display.  In this case,
> you'll need to have both screens at the same resolution or color depth.
>
> Or you can use them as two different desktops.  This is what I prefer to
> do.  You have one Xserver running, but two different instances of the
> desktop running independently of each other (one is on display :0.0, the
> other is on display :0.1).  KDE supports this right out of the box.  Gnome
> 2.0 doesn't support this by default, but you can make it work perfectly
> with a little tweaking.  (But, why on earth would you want to use
> something other KDE anyway?? :-)
>
> Oh yeah, there's one caveat:  galeon isn't smart enough to be able to run
> on both :0.0 and :0.1, it can only do one or the other.  I've never had a
> problem with any other application.
>
> -Mark
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:13:47AM -0700, James Cizek wrote:
> >   Had anyone on the list gotten dual head video under linux working?
> >   We are going to buy some new video cards to get dual head going
> >   and I would prefer to buy a single card with dual head capabilites
> >   versus two cards if possible.  A quick google search indicates that
> >   Matrox G450 G550 and HF cards are all supported.  Has anyone got
> >   anything like this working that can offer suggestions/warnings/advice?
> >
> >   Thanks.
> >   -James
> >   james at colostate.edu
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