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OK, I may take you up on that when next we meet.<br>
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Justin Dearing wrote:
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type="cite">Ken,
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<div>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
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<div>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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Kenneth
Downs <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ken@secdat.com">ken@secdat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My
laptop has a VGA output, and I got dual-headed support set up pretty
easily with xrandr.<br>
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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.<br>
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My desktop has, according to lspci a "Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ",
which also Just Works for a single display with Compiz enabled.<br>
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I'd like to make the desktop dual-head. Anybody know which of these is
simplest/cheapest:<br>
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1) Just buy another video card, any brand, put it in, install drivers,
and it will Just Work using xrandr<br>
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2) Cannot mix <insert brand> with Intel on-board, so must buy a
dual-port video card and disable on-board<br>
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3) Any other options?<br>
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