There are other ways of getting multi-monitor support other than using two separate X screens. The most recent and modern way is XRandR. So instead of epoxying your monitor port, or using X screens, you should try to use XRandR.
Separate X screens are complicated, and is likely not the experience you want. Desktops like GNOME have not supported that for a long time, and GTK+ has started to remove support for multi-screen X. On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Ken Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning and pardon me if this is a dead end question. I have seen some > references to it in the archives including a couple of responses from Intel > folks saying NO. The most recent was dated 2011 so I am hoping the answer > may have changed. > > I have a couple of Dell Inspiron 3050 PCs with "Intel HD Graphics". The > machines have two video outputs (Displayport and HDMI) and WILL drive two > monitors. However, I have not been able to establish separate X screens. > Here is a little more detailed information about the hardware: > > from lspci: > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor > Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e) (prog-if 00 [VGA > controller]) > Subsystem: Dell Device 0703 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 91 > Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] > Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] > I/O ports at f080 [size=8] > Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: i915 > > Operating systems include CentOS 7, Ubuntu Mate 15.10 and Linux Mint Mate > 17.3 although I do not think that is a limitation. > > Can someone offer a definitive NO which will put me out of my misery - I > will fill one of the video sockets with epoxy and never connect two monitors > :-) Or a "yes it is possible" in which case I will continue banging my head > against the problem. > > Many thanks, > > Ken > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg -- Jasper _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
