[Lilug] Dual Head question

[Justin Dearing]

Ken,
Performance wise I think gettign a dual head is best for games. Not sure the
performance implications to eye candy WM junk. However, I've gotten dual
monitor support working on seperate video cards in linux and solaris. I
mention solaris because I had to manually edit my xconfig tool myself. I
dont remember if xrandr was involved in either case, but on linux (few years
back not sure of distro) things "just worked"

If you want to experiment, I have a dual head 64meg pci video card I could
let you borrow at liphp and you can experiemnt with dual and triple head
setups.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:

> My laptop has a VGA output, and I got dual-headed support set up pretty
> easily with xrandr.
>
> The problem is that the laptop is a bit of a black box and Just Worked, so
> I'm not sure how to get a desktop machine going this route.
>
> My desktop has, according to lspci a "Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ", which
> also Just Works for a single display with Compiz enabled.
>
> I'd like to make the desktop dual-head.  Anybody know which of these is
> simplest/cheapest:
>
> 1) Just buy another video card, any brand, put it in, install drivers, and
> it will Just Work using xrandr
>
> 2) Cannot mix <insert brand> with Intel on-board, so must buy a dual-port
> video card and disable on-board
>
> 3) Any other options?
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