[wellylug] Dual Video cards with X

[Eugene Van Wyk]

Hi Damon

Other applications for dual heads.  Software development of user interfaces.
User screen on one, debug/code screens on the other.  The other application
- PCB layout and circuit design - displaying various board layers and
circuits during layout.  Very handy.   

A long time ago I ran an HP1000 system with a pc based terminals.  We used
"dual heads" - one card being an EGA colour, the other standard monochrome
screen.  The mono screen was for the command line terminal, the colour for
the graphics display of results.  The "terminals" were HP Vectra XT machines
without hard drives!

Eugene van Wyk
Test Development Engineer
4RF Communications
26 Glover str
Ngaraunga
Wellington
New  Zealand


-----Original Message-----
From: Damon Lynch [mailto:damon at dev-zone.org] 
Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 4:01 p.m.
To: wlug
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Dual Video cards with X

I know it is definitely possible to have multiple monitors connected to
multiple adapters of the same type. I once saw four monitors hooked up
to four different Geforces on one machine in Manila some years ago.  It
was an enormous virtual screen.  Why would someone like that?  I don't
know!

Damon

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:46, William Hamilton wrote:
> HI all..  looking to run Dual monitors via two video cards, anyone have
> some pointers to some decent docs?  The Docs I have found relate to the
> dual head cards but should still be useful.    Debian distrib' running
> Gnome 2 desktop, interested in checking out desktop across two screens
> and also different servers on each screen allowing me to have a couple
> of different logged in users in the same system, I do this now but onl
> one screen ;)
> 
> W
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