I havent done it, but multiple monitors under linux is one of its features. I belive there is a matrix card that does 4 monitors (and with the right software and hardware you can do upto 16 monitors.
A few years ago, when VA linux started supporting Mandrake and RasterMan (the guys that developed Enlightenment), One (or both) of them had some sweet screen shots of their desktops (which were humongus I think they used 2 or 3 displays). You might be able to look over enlightenment.org for those screenshots, and details on how to do it. Jamie At 10:41 AM 7/5/03 -0700, you wrote: >Bob > >Sounds like some cool toys. Are you running that card/monitor under >Knoppix? > >I would be interested in your future progress with twin monitors. I have >tested the twin monitor capability of two cards under windows. > >I found the Matrox G550 video card was: a dog! (well not a complete dog if >it continues to work well under RH.) > >Pro: it worked flawlessly under RH 8.0 (that's why I bought it,) the twin >monitor capability software performed well under windows. > >Con: does not do OpenGL (that's what I bought it for!!!,) software needed a >patch for a major bug, card is still fritzing under windows (I dropped from >optimal to default in the resolution.) > >I found the Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4200 card was: good (still under observation.) > >Pro: does OpenGL, so far no problems with performance. > >Con: the twin monitor capability software performed poorly under windows. > >But what about twin monitors under Linux? I am still waiting on a backup >strategy. I am completely gun shy at this point. But I suspect I will find >that the capability works fine and all the monitor software controls will be >limited. But I'll take stability over flexibility any day. It did sounds >like you had to do some tweaking to make that happen Bob. > >Brian > >_______________________________________________ >EuG-LUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
