Dual display with 2 diff. video card

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Tue Sep 21 00:34:53 UTC 2004


On Monday 20 September 2004 16:54, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> My motherboard has a built in Via chipset video card that I haven't used in
> a while cause the last time I used in (RH 7.x era) it gave me somekind of
> trouble and was not stable (X locked up, etc). So I put in a rather cheap
> Matrox Millenium II 4 MB card.
> Now I am running RHEL 3 and wondering if the XFree86 driver for the built
> in card has gotten any better. So my question is, it's possible to set up a
> dual-display that use both the built-in card and the Matrox Millenium II
> card? If yes, is there pointer on how to set it up, URL or references?

Well, I should have google harder before asking. I got to a Xinerama how to 
("xinerama" is the necessary keyword apparently) and now I already have it 
setup. It's really cool.

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

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