Re: anyone feel like testing a X multihead howto?
Carla Schroder <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday 07 July 2004 1:25 pm, Matt Alexander wrote: > Hey there Carla, > I have a dual-boot laptop (XP/FC1) with an LCD monitor plugged into the > VGA port. On the XP side I can configure things so that my desktop spans > both the laptop display and the LCD. On the Linux side, however, I can't > replicate this behavior. Both screens show the same desktop. I've > followed various howtos for this and X seems to ignore my conf settings. > So I'm wondering if you can only do the multi-heading on Linux if you have > two video cards (or a dual-head card)? Hi Matt, I do not know, I only know how to do it with two video cards, or a dual-head card. It seems like X ought to be able to do this, I'll dig around. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~