Expanding the desktop with 2 montitors

[georgef at atg.com (George Flaherty)]

Cool....

I have an extra video card too , so the dual cards and monitors would be
a good option for me.
Thanks for all the comments and help.

-g


"Matthew J. Brodeur" wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
>    I have done this in two different ways in the past.  One way is to put
> two graphics cards into the system and run the Xinerama extension under
> XFree 4.x+.  At my last job I was using an AGP Voodoo3 and a PCI ATI Rage
> 128 driving dual 19" Sony monitors, with a 3200x1200 desktop.  It worked
> nicely and there's a HowTo (http://www.nexttime.com/LDP/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html)
> that walks you through it.
>    The other method is to use a dual-head card.  Some have two graphics
> chips on one card, and therefore still require something like Xinerama to
> merge the display.  Others (such as some NVidia based cards with TwinView)
> can handle the multiple outputs between the hardware and the driver,
> making X think it's actually dealing with a single oddly shaped display
> device.
>    The advantage of the TwinView method is that you can run GL apps (like
> Quake 3 Arena) across both monitors, while Xinerama can't.
> 
> --
>      -Matt
> 
> QOTD:
>         I'm not a nerd -- I'm "socially challenged".
> 
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