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

[Adam Williams]

>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
>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).

Mr. Bartley (KLUG chariman) uses multi-head and presented on this topic
to KLUG.  See the Past Presentations page.  Several KLUG members use
multihead.

>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...

Sheesh,  why the fatalism?!  UNIX was doing things like multi-head
before the Microsoft world learned to spell V-G-A.