Re: 4.2.1 and 3.3.6 X servers coexist?
Russell <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au> writes:
> On the XFree86 page: http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status9.html#9
> some video cards only work with 3.3.6 X servers and others work
> with 4.2.1 X servers.
>
> If i put the two video cards in the pc, can i choose
> whether to start the 3.3.6 server or the 4.2.1 server
> with suitable entries in a single XF86Config-4 file?
> Could a two-head or xinerama system run with these two cards?
This seems unlikely. Certainly you couldn't use XINERAMA, or a
dual-head system in the traditional way; you'd need to run two
separate servers (so you'd have screens :0.0 and :1.0), and then
probably log into each X server separately. Negotiating access to the
single keyboard and mouse would be exciting. Maybe something like x2x
would help you get away with this, but it'd be a little weird.
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