Ok, hope I understand you correct here. You're wondering if it's possible to run
multiple X servers on one computer? Well, yes. It's been like this as far as I
know. That's not what multi-head is all about. Multi-head is about displaying
image on 2 phisically different monitors at the same time. Imagine for example a
flight sim where you'd play using a big 19" monitor as main view, and another
14" one next to it that displays your radar all the time... That's what
multi-head is all about. Another example would be one huge desktop with the left
side displaying on the left monitor and the right side on the other, or using
one monitor to code up an opengl-app, while you have it running on the other
monitor for immediate viaual output.
I don't know any details about the way it's been done in Xfree 4.0. AFAIK (but
this might be incorrect) both monitors must run same resolution and colordepth.
In order to be able to use multi-head, you either need 2 videocards, or one with
dual-head option, like the Matrox MGA-G400 if I'm correct. I know Xfree 4.0
supports the matrox thingie, not sure about 2 separate video boards though.
Well, hope this clarifies things, and sorry for my limited knowledge on the
subject.
On Mar 16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've heard bits and tidbits of this multi head thing with the new X. I was
> wondering if this would allow multiple users to run multiple X sessions on
> the sam computer. ie. tty0 would be running a root X session while
> ctrl-alt-F2 would switch you over to tty1 running a user X session. I'm
> shooting in the dark here because I have no clue about this. Will someon
> please enlighten this unworthy one?
> Thanx,
> SA
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