Matrox G450 will work on RHEL3. But may have difficulties on RHEL4. You can run two different WMs on two separate screens.
--George Harrington, Todd wrote: >Hi Mark, > >Thanks. That was a great reply. So, If I select 2 graphics cards, and I run >one instance of XFree86 on 2 graphics cards, can I then run a window manager >on one graphics card and just the X server itself on the other? Is this a >low-risk configuration if I commit to doing it? In other words, will almost >any graphics card that I purchase that allows me to run XFree86 on it by >itself work in this configuration? > >As far dual-head goes, I was looking the Matrox G450. > >Thanks! >Todd > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Mark Vojkovich >Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 1:27 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [XFree86] Dual Screens > > > You can run one instance of XFree86 on multiple graphics cards >simultaneously. These will show up as separate X screens. This >all depends on which cards you were planning on using and how >advanced is the driver support for them. Some dual-head cards may >support this if they support a separate-screens mode (separate-screens >are required if the two heads will have different X visuals). I'm >more optimistic about this working for separate cards rather than >a single dual-head card, but it just depends which cards you were >trying to use. If you happen to have some graphics cards lying >around, it would be good to experiment before commiting to something. > > Mark. > >On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Harrington, Todd wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>We are going to be running RedHat Enterprise v3 or v4 and want to be able to >>run two displays with different images on them. One will be a general purpose >>X Windowing system with keyboard and mouse and the display will be a >>Viewsonic LCD. The second display will run an X windowing system and will be >>used to display graphics to a monochrome black/green display. >> >>Is this dual "independent" display feature part of XFree86 4.x? Or do I need >>a special graphics card? Can I use any graphics card to do this? Can I use a >>dual headed card to save some PCI slots. >> >>Thanks, >>Todd >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>XFree86 mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >[email protected] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >[email protected] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [email protected] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
