Dual Head

Andrew Clayton andrew at digital-domain.net
Sat Oct 1 18:08:02 PDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 20:25 -0400, Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 00:24 +0100, Andrew Clayton 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
> > 
> A long while back I stumbled up a site showing just such an animal,
> google a bit with your creative thinking cap on and your likely to find
> the site. It was a three keyboard, three mouse, three head setup.

Ah. I maybe wasn't clear enough. I'm not after multi-desktop, just two
separate displays (connected to a single dual head card) sharing the
same keyboard and mouse. I know this can be dome with separate cards,
just not 100% sure about a single dual head card.

> Be curious as to how this works for you.
> 
> Regards,
> Ted

Cheers,

Andrew





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