currently just manually but should work with a simply udev rule as well. I might check that later at home :) Bernie has a nice rule here on his website: <a href="http://plugable.com/2009/11/16/setting-up-usb-multiseat-with-displaylink-on-linux-gdm-up-to-2-20/">http://plugable.com/2009/11/16/setting-up-usb-multiseat-with-displaylink-on-linux-gdm-up-to-2-20/</a> one could adopt it and just run the script to start xinit... <div class="gmail_quote">On 7 April 2011 15:12, <a href="mailto:akephart@akephart.org" target="_blank">akephart@akephart.org</a> <<a href="mailto:akephart@akephart.org" target="_blank">akephart@akephart.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Marcus, Good info -- thanks for sharing. Are you running this script manually, or is it tied to udev? -andrew On April 6, 2011 at 3:08 PM Marcus Becker <<a href="mailto:marcus.disi@googlemail.com" target="_blank">marcus.disi@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <div><div></div><div> > I had major trouble getting the second display to work with the nvidia > binary driver on the main display. Lucky me, I found this post: > <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1313190" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1313190</a> > To share the wisdom I gathered... > > The script displaylink.sh starts xinit with the second xorg.conf.DL > and xinit executes the second .xinitrc2 script in my home directory. > Finally x2x is executed to run in the background, it switched the > input devices between the displays (mouse). > > The x2x program works flawless and I can run awesome twice to have to > independent desktops. > The good thing, this should work with any other card :) > > One last hint, turn off dpms on the udlfb display (it never wakes up > again) > > Thanks, > Marcus > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- cheers, Marcus