Re: good dual head x tutorial
On Thursday 16 February 2006 06:43 pm,
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
From:
Nelson Castillo <nelsoneci@gmail.com>
On 2/16/06, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor.
>>ive
>> done enough googling and havent seen anything comprehensive. i
>>have
>> found some but they seem to be mostly mandrake(iva) or fedora
>>core or
>>some other distro centric. any suggestions for a distro agnostic
>>tutorial or a debian specific.
>I set up two monitors in my home PC and I collected a few
>links. They're not Debian Specific, but they helped me.
>
>http://del.icio.us/arhuaco/multihead
>
>Regards.
>
>--
>http://arhuaco.org/
Those guides are pretty good, but one of the simplest ways to get
dual head monitors is to buy a video card that supports it. Such as
the Matrox, or some Nvidia cards.
It can be as simple as turning on twinview, and telling xorg, or
xfree what head is what. The Nvidia readme is very good in that
regard, I am using an old gf2 dual monitor card right now. This
card is over 4 years old and still going strong. The original fan
failed, was replaced, and it works great. It's a good feeling to
get some old hardware working for a few years more.
It also depends on your needs, some people have different needs,
others just want to get into dual head goodness. If you haven't
bought the hardware yet I would consider what exactly you plan to
do. Some want each head as a separate x display, while others want
an extended desktop. It also depends on the window manager you use,
some window managers have problems with xinerama. So it really can
be an art to get things just right.
I would not worry about a specific distro howto, as what it comes
down to is the detection of the hardware, and your xorg, or xfree
conf file. Most likely you will have to edit it by hand, to add
the proper sections and monitors. Again this all depends on what
level, and job you intend to do. This will also depend on the
hardware you use, as some hardware require their special additions,
and options in the conf file.
Gnu-Raiz
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