I was curious if there is any software out for linux that creates a virtual video card. I used Maxivista on windows, but I now need one for linux.

Any help would be great!
Bif

Could you explain what a "virtual video card" is?

I had 2 computers. One was running windows xp at the time, and the other was running linux which has my servers on it. I always SSHed into my server so a gui was never important to me with the linux computer so the extra monitor was useless. I never had any cash to spare for a new video card that could give me dual display support so I just did some searching and found Maxivista. This is how Maxivista worked:

You install the server file onto the computer you wanted to extend the display on, and the client on the computer that was going to allow me to use its monitor. After you got them installed then you could go to the properties menu in windows and expand your desktop to the 2nd monitor, over your LAN. So Maxivista acted as a virtual video card.

To avoid confusion, this is not like Synergy. Maxivista tricked the computers into thinking you had dual display support from a card, yet, it was all over LAN. I could drag one window easily over to the other just like I had the proper hardware for it. It was laggy at times, but good enough to run widgets, and GAIM on since nothing moved around very quickly.

I hope I explained this well enough for someone to understand.

Bif

Ah I see, you're just shooting an X screen to another computer to use the other computer as an additional monitor.

Roger. Know any way to do that with Linux?