From: "Jakob Østergaard" <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Simon Hay <simon@haywired.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multiple monitors
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:48:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010903214829.B17488@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B93CF91.A6D59DA8@haywired.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B93CF91.A6D59DA8@haywired.org>; from simon@haywired.org on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:44:33PM +0100
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:44:33PM +0100, Simon Hay wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies in advance if this is a question that's already been answered
> somewhere... I'm looking for a way to install multiple (or rather, two)
> PCI/AGP cards in a machine and connect a monitor to each one, and use
> them both *in console mode* - preferably with some nice way to say
> 'assign virtual console 2 to the first screen, and 5 to the second' -
> that way you could have one tailing log files, showing 'top', whatever.
> A quick search of the web/newsgroups turned up various patches that
> looked ideal, but a closer inspection revealed that they either relied
> on you having a Hercules mono card, or only applied against kernel
> <0.99, or both... I was just wondering if anyone's thought
> about/written a similar patch for more recent hardware/versions? I was
> using a console Linux machine running BB (ASCII art demo -
> http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/) just to attract attention to our
> stand today and was thinking it would be really neat to have one machine
> driving several screens...
XFree86 has pretty good support for multiple heads.
If you tie an xterm to the root window, I guess you would get something
pretty close to what you're looking for. Or, configure some window manager
properly to do exactly what you want.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-03 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-03 18:44 Multiple monitors Simon Hay
2001-09-03 19:48 ` Jakob Østergaard [this message]
2001-09-03 20:11 ` Simon Hay
2001-09-03 20:49 ` Wakko Warner
2001-09-03 20:42 ` Simon Hay
2001-09-03 20:52 ` Jan Kasprzak
2001-09-04 16:52 ` James Simmons
2001-09-07 0:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-10 22:58 ` Pavel Machek
2001-09-13 12:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-03 20:57 ` Matan Ziv-Av
2001-09-04 7:56 ` Ghozlane Toumi
2001-09-04 16:44 ` James Simmons
2001-09-05 18:01 ` sacx
2001-09-05 18:13 ` sacx
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2011-06-01 14:15 Alexandr Klimenko
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