This question or ones very like it seem to come up fairly often. Of cource the critical (and hard) part is driving two video cards. It is possible. There was an article in LJ a bit ago describing the Metro-X X server, which can control multiple video cards (though they may have to be a particular type and/or brand. I don't know how interrupts and the like fit in the picture (your average video card uses two of them if I understand correctly). I don't know if XFree has any support for this sort of thing, or exactly how the kernel would be involved (seems it would have to be some way...). If anyone finds anything out, please post it to this list, I am curious also :)
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Jameson Burt wrote: > I seek to use one computer with two full X-windows users. > This would be a cheap in time/money approach for my wife and I simultaneously > using Linux. > I believe I could get a dummy terminal working through the serial port, > then display on a second monitor (though I don't know any approach for a > second mouse). > Is this reasonable, or is there another approach? > -- > Jim Burt, NJ9L, Fairfax, Virginia, USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mnsinc.com/jameson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "It is not the shortcomings of others, nor what others have done or not > done that one should think about, but what one has done or not done oneself." > --Dhammapada ["dp" command for quotes from the Dhammapada, in Linux] > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .