On 01/17/2016 06:25 PM, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 17:46 -0500, Ken Taylor wrote:
Separate X screens gives me EXACTLY what I am after. That is why I
asked the question. Please see this page:
http://jsmylinux.no-ip.org/basic-information/dual-monitors/ and have
a
look towards the bottom titled "Individual Panels".
It seems to me a reasonable thing to want. I used to use a similar
setup years ago on Sun hardware. But as far as I can tell the driver
for the Intel integrated graphics doesn't support multiple X screens in
that way. The NVidia driver does, but (of course) only for an NVidia
graphics card. On the other hand,
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XineramaHowTo
has a configuration using xinerama and an intel card, so it may depend
on the exact card you have (and I think in that case they're trying to
get to a single desktop with multiple monitors, but disabling xinerama
mode may get you closer to what you want).
It might be easier to buy an NVidia or ATI graphics card (after
checking for support)... which is even possible on some laptops.
Liam
Thanks Liam,
I will see what I can determine from the link you provided. From what I
have read about Xinerama it is intended to put multiple screens back
together - for example if they are on two discrete video cards - not to
break one card into two screens. Still, there is an Intel specific
xorg.conf example which I will study.
As to purchasing a discrete card... I would certainly do that for a
"real" PC or workstation. In fact I just replaced the obsolete Nvidia
card which came in my Dell Studio XPS 8000 with a Quadro K420. It runs
two 24" monitors separately just fine. The Inspiron 3050s are tiny toys
- sort of like the Intel NUC. No room for ANY expansion. However, as
they have two monitor connections... sort of a challenge. And
considering that most processors Intel makes these days contain
graphics... I hate to have to pay more for a Xeon just to avoid the
built in graphics - sort of like having to pay for Windoze on a PC I
plan to run Linux on :-(
Regards,
Ken
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