[nflug] dual monitors

Eric Benoit ebenoit at hopevale.com
Wed Dec 14 14:42:26 EST 2005


nice ...thanks

Mike Richardson wrote:
> Mike Richardson wrote:
> 
>>Eric Benoit wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This is prolly a simple one.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know if I can install two video cards and then attach two
>>>monitors and use sometime of software to create one large desktop?
>>>...for linux
>>
>>
>>I haven't tried this, so YMMV.
>>
>>A quick google search for "dual monitor +xorg.conf" came up with this
>>sample config which seems to be sane:
>>
>>http://wiki.osuosl.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7041
>>
>>the Xinerama extension will give you the extended virtual desktop:
>>otherwise, the two monitors will be seperate displays...
>>
> 
> 
> Or Gentoo has a good one on setting up dual cards, or getting that pesky
> single card with dual outputs working...
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors
> 
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