[Lilug] Dual Head question

[Kenneth Downs]

OK, I may take you up on that when next we meet.

Justin Dearing wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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