[ale] dual displays

[Dow Hurst]

I would love to hear a talk on that subject.
Dow

"Steven A. DuChene" wrote:
> 
> 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.
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