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From: Rial Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Multi Head X (OT)
>
>
> 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.
This is one area where MS Windows actually does much better than Linux (no
flames please). It supports just about any combo of PCI video cards while X
4.0 seems limited to Matrox cards (and maybe the S3 Virge cards - docs are
scarce). I have found multi-head to be great to use when writing: one
monitor displays my web browser, one a text editor and file browser and the
main monitor a wordprocessor with the main body of work. It sure beats
multiple virtual desktops. I've been doing this since Win 98 came out. While
the commercial X servers could support this, they were =very= expensive. I
have been scoping out the used video card offerings looking for some 8MB
Matrox cards and looking for another 15" monitor (It would be great to have
all 17" monitors, but who has the money?)
I am glad that XFree finally support multi-head so I can leave MS WiIndows
foor good (Except for OE which I run in VMware - show me an equivalent, free
Linux mail program and I'll be there.)
And BTW, it seems that XFree 4.0 dows not support my Voodoo 3-2000 as yet.
8(
Hoyt
>
> 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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