[NCLUG] dual head that isn't....

James Cizek jcizek at yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU
Wed Aug 11 09:06:36 MDT 2004



  I mis-posted my vid card.  It's actually a Matrox G550 if that
  makes any difference.....  sorry bout that!  -James

> 
>    Hi folks,
> 
>   I am running a Matrox G200 dual head card on Slackware 10.0 
>   and currently have the two displays "stitched" together to
>   create a big wide screen (like most people).  I want to have
>   two independent screens so that the main screen and second screen
>   are 2 entities.  A friend at work here suggests that maybe 2 seperate
>   X servers need to run to do this each with it's own screen.  
>   Has anyone done this?  If so, do you have snippits of xconfig to
>   share with me?  Once you have done this, how do you switch keyboard/
>   mouse control between them?  Thanks for any thoughts you may have...
>   -James  
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