Dual Head

[Björn Nilsson]

I tried to get this working a year ago, and didnt succed. I ended up
bying a second PCI radeon card and starting up a second X server on
that by specifying its PCI-id.

using this xorg.conf:
http://bni.dyndns.org/xorg.conf

And start the second X server like this:
X -ac -nolisten tcp -layout Layout1 :1 & DISPLAY=:1 xine --fullscreen
--no-splash --hide-gui --auto-play $1

Only one head can be "active" at the same time, the picture shows up
at either the TFT or the TV. Mouse and keyboard input is sent to the
"active" x server.

I am also very interested in getting this to work on 1 dual head card
only, if possible at all.

On 10/2/05, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is it possible with a single dual head card (say a Radeon 9250) to run a
> separate X server on each head?. IIRC this means that both heads share
> the keyboard/mouse, but windows can't move between/span screens as in
> Xinerama.
>
> Just checking before I make any purchase.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew Clayton
>
>
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