Expanding the desktop with 2 montitors

[georgef at atg.com (George Flaherty)]

Charles,

So does the g450 card support two monitors? Or did you have two cardS?

-g

Charles Peterman wrote:
> 
> I've done this with Matrox G450 card.  It is quite nice and the Xfree86
> 4.xx setup is straightforward.  The added real-estate is quite nice,
> unfortunately I had to switch to enlightenment from sawmill for my windows
> manager in order to support the second desktop.
> 
> Matrox also does offers some binary only support for the situation.
> 
> -Charles
> 
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, George Flaherty wrote:
> 
> > I have an extra monitor and I would like to use 2 monitors for my LINUX
> > box. Now I have seen this before for NT, but I don't know if there is a
> > LINUX version. In the end I would like to be able to use both monitors
> > for a single desktop session. Therefore when the mouse move to the right
> > side of the left-hand monitor, it will jump (be focused) on the
> > right-hand side monitor.
> >
> > Is this even possible (and with in reason $$) for LINUX? I am assuming I
> > will need to purchase a graphics card that will take two monitors?
> >
> > Any input would be great
> > thanks
> > -g
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