[NBLUG/talk] Multiple monitors

Kyle Rankin greenfly at greenfly.net
Wed Jul 30 11:03:00 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:59:02AM -0700, Dave Rohling wrote:
> Where's a good place to start looking for info on setting up multiple
> monitors in Linux? Any suggestions would be helpful.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave Rohling
> Network Administrator
> Clover Stornetta Farms, Inc.

The best place to start would be the Xinerama HOWTO which you can find
here:
http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Xinerama-HOWTO.html

It is pretty straightforward.  Basically you make sure each individual card
works by itself in individual Screen and ServerLayout sections, and then
you combine them in a ServerLayout section.  There are a lot of examples in
the HOWTO.

Note that doing multi-head on a single ATI or Nvidia card is slightly
different since they have their own multi-head configurations.  I don't
have much experience doing it with ATI, but with Nvidia, the documentation
that comes with the Nvidia proprietary drivers goes over it well.  Simply
go to the "Twinview Extensions" Appendix in their docs.

-- 
Kyle Rankin (greenfly)
http://greenfly.org



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