[KLUG Members] Dual Monitors + video cards in linux.

[Adam Bultman]

Hello, folks.  I'm getting a new monitor, and this means that I can run 
dual monitors on my linux box.  I've been tinkering for a bit, and 
searching the net a bit, but not finding much to my chagrin.  Here's what 
I've got:

Red Hat 7.2, Xfree 4.1.0

Card one (AGP) : MAtrox Millennium G200, 8 MB on a Viewsonic A70
Card Two: (PCI): ATI Xpert@work, 8MB on a Samsung Syncmaster 500s.  

I ran XFree86 -configure, which created the dual-head config file, and if 
I run XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config, it pops up Displays on Both screens, 
which is nice (but the mouse is tweaked).  This makes me think I can do 
it, but again-- the mouse doesn't work, and I can't get much to pop up on 
there.  

1. Are thre any utils that will help me (Xinerama is mentioned, but I 
haven't seen much of it-- apart from being an option passed to XFfree86).

2. Have any of you done this?  IT would totally kick butt if I could run 
dual monitors, especially if they ran as nice as on windows.  (without the 
crashing, of course).

I fear I may have to run dual monitors in my windows box, which, as you 
all know, would be a waste...

adam

 
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Adam Bultman
adamb@glaven.org