[lug] Dual monitors on Linux??

D. Stimits stimits at idcomm.com
Tue Sep 4 13:01:46 MDT 2001


Shannon Johnston wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know if you can run 2 monitors on a linux workstation? Has
> anybody done this?? I would love to have details.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shannon Johnston
> nunar at nunar.com
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> Hiroshima '45 Chernobyl '86 Windows '95
> 
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You might find this interesting:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/linux/

In XFree86 4.0.x, depending on the video card, there is a Xinerama
extension to do this. There seem to be only a few video card types that
can do this. In console mode, framebuffer extensions might do it in a
restricted way.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com



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