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Andrew Maxwell (q9110656@helios.usq.EDU.AU) wrote:


: I want to run X on two monitors, one at say 1024x768 and the other at
: 1024x1024 or similar. Can I just plonk in two videocards with different
: address spaces and tell linux where they are and have X displayed
: simultaneously on both, or can I only 
: have one monitor with X and the other just as a terminal screen, 
: or some other combination?

: [To be more specific I was wanting to have the lower res in colour and
: the higher res in mono only, hence it should be fairly easy to
: have a VGA card and a HERC card (i.e. different addresses I think)]
:  
: I don't want to invest in high performance monitors if one is
: going to end up in text mode only.

I think setting the two displays should be possible without much
difficulty. However I cant think of a way you would swap user input
between the two displays.

To get the two displays to work you could set up two different users each
with a seperate XFConfig files for each display type.  Then when ypu log in
seperately......hmmmm, come to think of it I am not sure if you can have
two instances of the X server running on the same physical machine.  Never
done it myself.  I just tried it and it told me that "Server is already
active for display 0".  It may be possible if you could configure your
second display with a seperate DISPLAY identifier.  Not sure how you would
do this.  Or it may require explicit X server support for dual display
capability.

The other easier way is to get a terminal as I have done, can have both
running with no problems.  Of course it would be only text based.
Actually what you suggest WOULD require explicit X server support I suspect
as otherwise there would be no need for hw based dedicated X terminals as
we could run multiple X terminals by simply having non conflicting video
memory on the one physical machine.  I think the limiting factor is that
you may not have more than ONE  XDM session in one machine.  But then I
really don't have a clue what I am on about...... 

Anyone else care to shed some light on this topic?

Another extraction from the random mental stream of....

Tony

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