ATI Dual Screen With X on Seperate Screens & Keyboards.
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ATI Dual Screen With X on Seperate Screens & Keyboards.
Hello, I'm a new guy on this forum, but I thought I'd ask a question thats been bugging me for ages.
I've searched online for help, but I don't think anyone has tried what I'm trying to do before (or I'm just not using the right keywords).
I'm looking to setup X to work with dual screens (one on VGA, the other on DVI). But I wish to have seperate login on both screens (each screen with their own keyboard)
So that 2 screens can be powered by one machine but used by two people simultaneously.
I'd like to do this
A) Because I'm a student and energy bills are high.
B) So that my friends can use my PC while i'm using it on a seperate screen so they don't interrupt my session
Hardware:
3.00 GHZ Pentium Dual Core
512MB Ram
ATI Radeon 9250 (Using OpenSource driver ati)
Generic AC97 Sound card
160GB Hard Disk
My current Linux flavor is Debian Linux (Etch 4.0), and I use X.org 7.0.
Is what i'm suggesting even possible, and how would I go about implementing a solution?
I was thinking that USB keyboards could be configured in X to allow them to be used on the separate screen.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have quite a bit of experience using Linux, so I should be able to understand any reply given.
Many thanks,
MarioFreak
Last edited by mariofreak; 03-17-2008 at 08:40 AM.
There are commercial solutions which use dual head cards (see provided links), but you need two cards if you want to just use the X server. You can try ... you get trouble when two different x-servers try to access the same hardware.
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