[ale] dual displays

[Steven A. DuChene]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:37:25PM -0800, Stephen Turner wrote:
> i was just curious.... i heard a guy on the list
> talking about useing 2 vid cards to run dual displays?
> why would someone care to do this? what is the
> benifit? i have often wanted to be able to have 6
> screens running each terminal in lunux but i doubt
> thats possible at the moment but whats with dual
> displays? i see some graphix cards support it..
> 

If there is general interest in answers to questions like this
I could be persuaded to do a XFree86 tip and tricks talk for
an up coming ALE meeting.

Basically it is possible to have more than one video card
configured in XFree86 and then have the Xserver span cards
(and thus monitors) so you can drag windows across the two
different card/monitor display pairs. Creates a big virtual
screen.
-- 
Steven A. DuChene      linux-clusters at mindspring.com
                      sduchene at mindspring.com

        http://www.mindspring.com/~sduchene/

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