[Libdlo] running 2 instances of X for multihead display

[Marcus Becker]

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:
http://plugable.com/2009/11/16/setting-up-usb-multiseat-with-displaylink-on-linux-gdm-up-to-2-20/
one could adopt it and just run the script to start xinit...

On 7 April 2011 15:12, akephart at akephart.org <akephart at akephart.org> wrote:

> 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 <marcus.disi at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> > 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:
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1313190
> > 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
> >
>



-- 
cheers,

Marcus
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