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Ac1db0rN 03-13-2005 08:47 AM

Two screens on separate graphic-cards. Possible on linux?
 
I'd like to use 2 different screens on 2 different graphic-cards (one screen on each). One screen sholud eighter work as an extension of the desktop or have full screen applcations on it. What I try to do is to be able to have a movie runing on one screen while the other can be used for work at the same time.

The cards I use are: GF2MX400 (AGP) and 3dfx blaster banshee (PCI).

The program must work on eighter kanotix (debian-based) or mandrake 9.2.

sigsegv 03-13-2005 09:14 AM

Certainly possible. Investigate the Xinerama extention to XFree86/Xorg.

Google has a ton of info on the topic.

frieza 03-13-2005 09:16 AM

yeah... you are looking for Xinerama.... an example of it's use with xorg would be..
the contents of my xorg.conf file
Code:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier    "Multihead layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
        Screen      1  "Screen1" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        Option            "Xinerama" "on"
        Option            "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.

        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        FontPath    "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#        Option        "Xleds"                "1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#        Option        "XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#        Option        "XkbModel"        "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#        Option        "XkbModel"        "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#        Option        "XkbLayout"        "de"
# or:
#        Option        "XkbLayout"        "de"
#        Option        "XkbVariant"        "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#        Option        "XkbOptions"        "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#        Option        "XkbOptions"        "ctrl:nocaps"
#
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option            "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option            "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option            "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option            "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option            "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option            "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier  "Monitor0"
        VendorName  "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Dell 1726T-HS/D1025HT"
        DisplaySize  330        240
        HorizSync    31.0 - 85.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 100.0
        Option            "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier  "Monitor1"
        VendorName  "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Dell P991"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 107.0
        VertRefresh  48.0 - 120.0
        Option            "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "ati"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName  "ATI Mach64"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard1"
        Driver      "mga"
        VendorName  "Videocard Vendor"
        BoardName  "Matrox Millennium"
        BusID      "PCI:0:11:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device    "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    16
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport  0 0
                Depth    16
                Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device    "Videocard1"
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth    16
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport  0 0
                Depth    16
                Modes    "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode        0666
EndSection

hope this helps


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