[ale] dual-head xfree 4.2

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Mon Jun 17 20:36:14 EDT 2002


I would like to do this with onbard AGP as main and PCI as second
descktop.  Can this be done?


On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 14:01, Chris Egolf wrote:
> Probably the best place to start would be here:
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html
> 
> Also, depending on the Radeon card you have, there may be a few gotchas. 
>   I ran into a problem w/ the Dell OEM version of the Radeon VE card 
> which requires a patch from the XFree86 CVS.  The maintainer was kind 
> enough to send me the update, but I don't know if it's available from 
> CVS yet.
> 
> If you have the retail version of a Radeon, you should be in good shape. 
>   The HOWTO's pretty good.
> 
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> > I recall someone posting to the list regarding a dual head setup.  I've 
> > decided to give this a spin, since my radeon card supports multiple 
> > devices.  I'm not found any specific info as to how to modify the config 
> > file for this purpose.  Does anyone have any document pointers?  I've 
> > been all over the XFree site.
> > 
> 
> 
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