Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:48:29 +0200 | From | Jakob Østergaard <> | Subject | Re: Multiple monitors |
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:44:33PM +0100, Simon Hay wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies in advance if this is a question that's already been answered > somewhere... I'm looking for a way to install multiple (or rather, two) > PCI/AGP cards in a machine and connect a monitor to each one, and use > them both *in console mode* - preferably with some nice way to say > 'assign virtual console 2 to the first screen, and 5 to the second' - > that way you could have one tailing log files, showing 'top', whatever. > A quick search of the web/newsgroups turned up various patches that > looked ideal, but a closer inspection revealed that they either relied > on you having a Hercules mono card, or only applied against kernel > <0.99, or both... I was just wondering if anyone's thought > about/written a similar patch for more recent hardware/versions? I was > using a console Linux machine running BB (ASCII art demo - > http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/) just to attract attention to our > stand today and was thinking it would be really neat to have one machine > driving several screens...
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.
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