On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Anonymous Sender wrote: > Hello all, > I would like to run X in 2 monitor environment, but > I'm not sure it is possible or not, because I would > like the Xinerama like config but with 1 X display + 1 > console display. Is this available, or I can use only > 2 or more X displays?
Sadly, you can only do the latter currently. The details are complicated, but from my understanding of this issue it NOT something the XFree86 (or any other X server) can do anything about. The console is entirely a function of the linux kernel, and the Xserver is, of necessity, bound to the console. Once the kernel itself is able to handle multiple screens the configuration you have in mind will automagically work with XFree. There is a patch to disable the binding to the console, but since this breaks keyboard support completely (unless you wanted to tack on a separate USB keyboard, which you can do..) this is almost (but not completely) useless. So, in short, go bug the kernel guys*. =p James Gibson * -> Note, I don't actually endorse 'bugging' anyone. I would imagine the (nicer) comments you would receive from such an action would be along the lines of "If you think it's broken, fix it yourself!" _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
