2 monitors, 1 computer
 

i have a big problem... I'm trying to connect 2 monitors, on 2 diferent videocards togeder.

the 1st is a Philips 14b with 1024x768x32 connected to a nVIDIA RIVA TNT2 pro , AGP, with 16MB ram and the 2nd is an old apple capable of max 800x600x256, (I think or 256 colors), connected to a S3Trio64v PCI.

I used mandrake linux 8.2 and the systems freez or don't work (it dasn't find a monitor), when i try to view an image on the apple monitor.
now i have installed slackware8.0 and the configuration program colaps...
can u help me pls... a link, or some advices anything is welcomed

thx

PS can i run on one monitor the X system and on the outher the text system?

What the reason for two monitors?
One guess is the systems doesn't know which one is console?

it's hard to explain...

well i haven't got to that part yet...
i have problems regarding the initial configuration i still cant make them start... well i did it once but i had no image and i could see only the mouse pass from one to the outher
thats all

Your might want to repost to the hardware forum

heh...can you actually do that 2 video cards with 2 monitors and have different stuff on each one from the same computer?? buddy I don't think you can do that simply because how can you have your keyboard and your mouse do two things at the same time??, remember it's the same computer, so whatever is on your monitor it has to be on the other... nice idea but your need two computers for that ;)

zLinuxz

Unless you you mean attached a dump termnial via a network, like the old vt100

yeah, and I think you still need two pc's for that, hehe, :)

Not really you could do a network from flash memory.
ZLinux you HAVE used a Vt100 Teminal haven't you:)

I haven't, Well, maybe I have, but I don't remember. And I think you may want to check out something called Xinerama. And I would check each monitor seperately first, just to make sure that they can actually work alone.

It's called duel display you CAN do that.

LoL, pickledbeans, no I have not used one, and since I just looked it up and now I know what it is, I DON'T even want to use one. So, sure, you can do that ... what you suggested for sqn ... eventhough is higly unlikely and unpractical to do it with ease as it is for something with massive use...and it's not like if you could have X running on all the different monitors, keyboards, and mouses attached to the host computer.

Actually i would really want to have something setup like this. Say i'm playing a game. SO during the game i can't do anything else wif my computer, unless i have another monitor, which i can work on other stuff if there are waiting periods in a game. E.g. multiplayer.

hehe, maybe someone should say **HOW** you do it rather than just saying yes or no :)

actaully when i first started out with my dual head i wanted exactly what you were after, but it's not possible, an it's not really too desirable. it's easier o do better. have a look at me here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...light=Xinerama

and here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...light=Xinerama

but that link won't work anymore for the config file. currently try http://80.4.78.28/dualhead

nutshell, no you can't because you can't run heavy loaded stuff on the remote monitors....it's only for like text...it's less capable than a computer that you had to boot before with a Floppy disk and run everything with a floppy disk cuz it had no hardrive...you can't do anything too useful with it except maybe ping something... so there goes your multitasking with this vt100 crap.

thx all...
y'll what i can do...
i just got a spliter for the moniror, and now thgay bouth run but thay show the same picture... :(

thx again...
:)