acid_kewpie

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you should be able to simply load two versions of gnome:

gnome-session --display :0.0 &
gnome-session --display :0.1

in your ~/.xinitrc if you're wanting to do it via gdm I couldn't really say. well i could say use blackbox instead...

cdennett

I appreciate the help...unfortunately I am using gdm, though I tracked down where it calls gnome-session. My problem now is that both gnome sessions use the same config files, which is not a good thing. They let you "choose sessions", but it doesn't seem to do anything.

After talking to some other people, I either need to try and run a second X server or I'll trash my install and go back to RedHat 7.3, which seemed to have a lot more options to choose from.

Thanks anyways.

-Chris

moses

Going back to an older version of RH is unlikely to help. Try a different
WM. I use openwindows, and it's worked fine for years, though all it does
is manage windows -- it doesn't have all that fancy cruft that KDE and
Gnome have (though I can run all KDE and Gnome apps).
I was, for a while, using gdm (and occasionally kdm) as my graphical login
screen, and it never had a problem with giving me two heads, once I had
logged in to a decent WM.
There are other WMs that work just as well, I THINK enlightenment will
allow two heads, I know blackbox does, there are others.

vhg119

its running fine for me now.. i'm running an nvidia card though and I just followed the howto from the nvidia site plus make a couple of changes.. i have no idea about matrox though.

DakotaMan2002

Just wanted to let other know that I got my Dual heads setup with this post.

Video card is a Geforce FX 5200 128MB

Here is my XF86Config-4 file for anyone thats is intrested....

(NOTE I am using the Drivers from NVIDIA's web site")

# File generated by XFdrake.

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D: layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbCompat" ""
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Generic"
ModelName "1024x768 @ 70 Hz"
HorizSync 31.5-57.0
VertRefresh 50-70

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?
# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync
ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor2"
VendorName "Generic"
ModelName "1024x768 @ 70hz "
HorizSync 31.5-57.0
VertRefresh 50-70
EndSection


Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device2"
BoardName "NVIDIA Geforce FX (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
Option "DPMS"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
Identifier "monitor1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "monitor2"
Device "device2"
Monitor "monitor2"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "dual"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen 0 "monitor1"
Screen 1 "monitor2" LeftOf "monitor1"
Option "Xinerama"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single"
Screen 0 "monitor1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama"
Endsection

zapp

If you don't enable Xinerama, and have 2 displays (:0.0 and :0.1), how do you set it to use the keyboard and mouse for both of them; or do you need 2 keyboards and 2 mice?