Re: Dual monitor displays

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> I want drive two monitors with my Matrox G450, RHEL on the left and a
> full-screen VMware instance of W2K on the right. Searching back through
> two years of Red Hat and Fedora mail lists I find occasional mentions of
> xinerama, but nothing like a full HOWTO. 'up2date xinerama' returns "The
> following packages you requested were not found: xinerama."
>
> Suggestions? Hints?

Xinerama is a part of XFree that allows dual head operation.
redhat-config-xfree86 should be able to setup multi-head diplays if you
have multiple AGP or PCI display adapters installed in your system.

The G450 requires an extra set of libraries from matrox (IIRC, called
HALlib)

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm

I used these under RHL7.2 and Debian a long time ago.. Have not tried them
with newer XFree4 or NPTL kernels.

HTH,

-n
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