Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:49:53 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Multiple monitors |
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> > XFree86 has pretty good support for multiple heads. > > > > If you tie an xterm to the root window, I guess you would get something > > pretty close to what you're looking for. Or, configure some window manager > > properly to do exactly what you want. > > > > I had considered doing that - I believe that some of the framebuffer > code supports multiple heads as well(?) - but in this particular case it > wasn't appropriate - the whole point was to demonstrate what could be > achieved using only a command line ;-) Also, though, on dedicated servers > etc. I'd rather not be running X if I didn't have to. Would this be a > particularly difficult thing to implement as a kernel patch? I'd like to > try to get involved in kernel development at some point and am looking for > something to ease myself in slowly - preferably something useful but > unimportant ;-) Are there any show stoppers involved here - or does > anyone have any other ideas?
I thought of doing something like this but using a matrox g400 or g450 dual head card. primary would be for X, secondary would be a console. Not sure if that's more difficult or not. Something I'd like to have, however.
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