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[ILUG] Dual Head Graphic Cards

[ILUG] Dual Head Graphic Cards

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Wed Jun 29 16:10:15 IST 2005


On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Niall O Broin wrote:

> Just should qualify for some kind of subset of Godwin's law, no? 
> The issue here is going to be that the cards Andres is talking 
> about are dual head ATI cards, and hence he'll have to run two X 
> servers each of which gets to have half of the card. I can can 
> foresee problems with that.

Ah, oops. Sorry, presumed it'd be obvious you'd need two 
seperate cards.

I think Xorg server can in fact do the two mouse/keyboard thing, but 
no idea how and no idea whether xdm/gdm/kdm would be happy managing 
:0.0 and :0.1.

Two card should be fine though.

regards,
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