reassign 251449 xfree86-common retitle 251449 xfree86-common: please add instructions on configuring multiple displays to FAQ severity 251449 wishlist thanks On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:42:27PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: > Package: xserver-xfree86 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 > > Please can you add an entry to the FAQ on how to configure two displays. > > Here is a starting point: > > Q) Using more than one monitor (Dual head) > > > If you are using the nvidia driver, and wish to use the "TwinView" > feature, then more detailed instructions can be found in > /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz > > An example using two video cards to drive two displays can be found in > ***insert example filename here***. > > An example using a video card capable of driving two displays can be > found in ***insert example filename here***. > > > What I struggled to work out from the instructions - though it now > seems obvious from the example in the nvidia readme. You need to have > two "Device" entries identical except that the first should have have > the command Screen 0, and the second Screen 1. (I have in fact not > tried this as I got the Twinview setup working - but I think that this > was my problem). Thank you for your report. This will need to be fleshed out before it can be added to the FAQ; also, a migration of the FAQ to XHTML is pending, and so this will probably wait until after that has occurred to be included. -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." Debian GNU/Linux | The original Latin seems to have branden@debian.org | been garbled. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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