Is it possible for separate console output if you have multiple monitors?

Dman58 · 09-04-2015, 04:14 PM

In GUI mode I have 2 monitors displaying different information any window is placed where I want it in my area of real-estate. I would like to achieve the same thing more or less when I switch to virtual console.

For example I want to display tty2 on one monitor and tty4 on the other.

As of now when I switch to virtual console the monitors duplicate each other but how can they be independent?

Keith Hedger · 09-04-2015, 06:11 PM

I'm in the same boat and havn't so far found an answer, I would like to display a console on one monitor and X on another.

Dafydd · 09-06-2015, 02:38 PM

Research your video card and see if it allows that.
A Google of "multiple video linux" looks interesting.

I looked into this some but lost interest when I discovered I would have to buy a new video card with 2 VGA outlets.

Good luck.

273 · 09-06-2015, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Keith Hedger

I'm in the same boat and havn't so far found an answer, I would like to display a console on one monitor and X on another.

I think I've done this with my NVIDIA card by starting X on the screen that's blank when booting to console. I've had two different DEs running also but, alas, haven't seen a way to get two consoles. What I'd like to be able to do is have two separate DEs running that have to be swapped between with Ctrl+Alt+F key rather than the mouse moving from one to the other. It could be good for gaming to stop the mouse leaving the window, for example.

Dman58 · 09-06-2015, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Dafydd

Research your video card and see if it allows that.
A Google of "multiple video linux" looks interesting.

I looked into this some but lost interest when I discovered I would have to buy a new video card with 2 VGA outlets.

Good luck.

This is not what I want to achieve, as well as this is already accomplished. I have multiple monitors working already that is the easy part.

I want each monitor to display a unique console after booting up. example: VGA on tty2 and HDMI on tty3

TobiSGD · 09-07-2015, 04:30 AM

The usual Linux console can not do that, as far as I know. You would have to use a newer solution, like kmscon, to get multi-monitor support on the console.

Dman58 · 09-09-2015, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

The usual Linux console can not do that, as far as I know. You would have to use a newer solution, like kmscon, to get multi-monitor support on the console.

That seems like a good find. I'll test it out as soon as I can.

TobiSGD · 09-09-2015, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Dman58

That seems like a good find. I'll test it out as soon as I can.

Please post your findings here. This is a topic I am interested in, but did not find the time to test it myself.