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Re: Two Monitors



Britton writes:
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>
>I read an article in LJ describing the Metro-X server (I think that was it
>anyway), which can drive multiple video cards (though only with the right
>cards).  I don't know if Xfree has any support for this sort of thing, or
>exactly how it would shake out with interrupts and such.  I too am
>interested in this.  If you find anything else out let me know.
>

In the Feb. 98 LJ on pg. 72 there was a user question on this response
was suggested Accelerated-X over Metro-X.  Multiple monitors feature
is refered to multi-headed.

I have no experience in this I am just passing this info on

>On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
>
>> Has anyone any experience in using two monitors on one machine.  I'm
>> thinking particularly of X.  I can get a second video card (which I guess
>> is mandatory or there'd be nowhere to plug the second one in right?).
>> 
>> What I'm really interested in is getting the tow side-by-side and having X
>> treat them as one big screen (similar to the way Macintosh's can do this).
>> Is this possible?  Or is my best bet to run up X :0 and X :1 and use
>> <Ctrl-Alt-F[78]> to switch between them?
>> 
>> I'd be interested to hear...
>> 
>> 8<--------------------------------------->8
>> Richard Shepherd (richards@waikato.ac.nz)
>> Phone: 07-838-4764
>> 8<--------------------------------------->8
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