Quoting Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
I was messing around with the Live CDs for Mephis and Knoppix the
other day and I couldn't find a way to make it run my dual displays.
Does anyone sucessefully run dual displays with Linux? I assume the
answer is yes.
You mean using two monitors, right? I know it's /possible/ because I
once saw a professor doing that (years ago). But I don't know how to do
it, sorry.
Your best bet is the Mepis support forum.
http://www.mepis.org/forum
The only thing I found on Google was Xfree or X86 or XWin, someting
like that. It looked like it would work. Has anyone has success with
this?
All unix/linux systems use a graphics system called X-Windows. It's what
talks to your monitor, sort of speak. Above it is the window manager,
which is what makes windows, icons, menus, etc.
XFree86 (xfree for short) is an open source X-windows system (X for
short). Because it's open source, it was used by Linux and BSD, so it
became sort of a standard. Though due to an internal dispute, everyone's
moving to a new group (a fork) called X.org.
I don't know what it takes to get a dual display working, but whatever
it is, probably involves doing something with X.
Sorry I couldn't help, but I hope I've at least made the terminology
clearer.
Cheers,
Daniel.
Here is the XFree86 config file for a dual monitor:
http://www.mkaz.com/reference/XF86Config
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