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Linux Dual head (Sorta)
for the first month I had linux installed on my PC, I was told I couldn't have dual monitors.
up for the biggest challenges ( \thats\ imposible ), I went on to do it.
after all it says something about it in the XF86Config file....
I have two 15 inch monitors
1 SiS built in chip actiong as the AGP card (using VESA framebuffer)
1 XFX branded GeForce2 MX 400 (using nVidia's binary)
Linux 2.4.26
XF86 4.4
KDE 3.2.2
on a 1.236 GHz AMD system w/ 620 MBs ram and SiS chipset
nVidia's package came with XF86Config.sample
this is where I got the most information on how to do this.
(I will post the config file section that matters ina new post to kep this one clean)
What it didn't tell me was how to \make\ it all work together, which I've found to be quite "generic" in nature. I had to write the Config file properly, then also had to choose the AGP slot to be the primary display in the BIOS. (which may vary from motherboard to motherboard) I thoguht this odd since there was no card in the AGP slot, figured I'd try it anyways, since it was the last thing to try. - BTW - the manual for my mobo said it supports two video outputs, this is another reason I continued on.
it took me 3 reboots for everything to work nicely together.
So now, my results are:
two monitors in KDE
somehow enchanced 2d graphics in my primary display
two seperate, yet combined Desktop screens (one on each monitor)
-NOTE- so far this has NOT allowed to me to have The GIMP's pallets on one display and the canves on the other. it is NOT an extended desktop. More like two combined KDE sessions. The mouse goes from screen to screen as if it was extended desktop however.
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