Re: [expert] 2 or more display card in Linux ?
Arandir wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Lang Zhi wrote: Hi, Can Linux or X11 support 2 or more graphics card at once , like the Windoze98 idea ? You mean like "multihead". Sure. You can do whatever you want! (After all, you can have multiple people using the the same system simultaneously.) Take a look at "Xinerama", a project of Mandrake (of E fame). You can drag windows from screen A to screen B. Xinerama is supposed to be included in XFree86 4.0. I don't know how to do it, but a slightly different thing I've seen is having a monitor for "X", and another monochrome monitor for a console. Not being able to afford the luxury of a superflous (for me) monitor, I don't have any details. There is quite a bit of information about this on the Xi Graphics web site http://www.xig.com makers of Accelerated X, a competitor to XFree86. But in a nutshell, it sounds easy provided you have either: 1. A VGA card and a Monochrome MGA card. This should work with *most* computers, and it should work with the present XFree86 as well. 2. Two compatible VGA cards. There are only a few that will work. Apparently they are special in that most VGA cards will do only one i/o and interrupt, whereas the special cards can be set with jumpers to use a different i/o and interrupt. With this setup, and the Multiheaded software from Xi Graphics, you can have two color monitors (and presumably two keyboards and either one or two users etc). If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion. I would not do the Multiheaded twin VGA. It sounds expensive and I bet thate there are going to be quirks. For instance, I cannot but imagine that each X windows application will need to be told which display to use, etc. Instead, I would use two computers networked together. With Xwindows running in both, you can have computer B display programs running in A. This is standard X-Windows, and is supported with the hardware you now have. Easiest way to do this is with ssh although rlogin and telnet may work. For instance, say I am sitting at computer B, and want to run Netscape in computer A but display it in B. I open an xterm in B, and ssh to A and start the program. promptB $ ssh machineA.com password: peanut promptA $ netscape and presto, Netscape displays on B, not A. In fact, machine A does not even need to be running X...or have X windows installed. It works "satisfactorily" with a 10 mbps ethernet, but is really truly wonderful with 100 mbps ethernet or those fiber optic network cards. Think carefully about this because the cost of 100 mbps ethernet cards is a lot less than the two special VGA cards you will need for the dual-headed computer, and the flexibility is a lot better. Just make sure to use a 100 mbps crossover cable or a 100 mbps hub and verify you have a useful 100 mbps link. A lot of machines that have 100 cards only put out 10 for one reason or another. -- Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin Nook Net http://www.nook.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575 P.O. Box 970fax. 907-443-2487 Nome, Alaska 99762-0970 == Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525
Re: [expert] 2 or more display card in Linux ?
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ty C. Mixon wrote: Ok, if we can do anything, why is the support staff at Mandrake told me I can't have more than one GUI open at once? And better, how can I do this. I LIKE Gui's. it fits how I think - in pictures. Not being able to afford the luxury of a superflous (for me) monitor, I don't have any details. Mandrake Linux doesn't *support* multihead, since it's not part of their distro. The tech support person you conversed with might not even have known about multihead. You're talking to tech support after all :-) As I said, I don't have the luxury of having a multihead monitor, so I can't give you any configuration scripts or anything However, the X Windows System is just another set of processes. I have seen two GUI's operating at the same time with different X consoles, but on the same monitor, that the user could switch between. With multihead, there's no reason not to have two monitors running two separate GUI's. I would suggest looking at x.org, xfree86.org, etc. -- Arandir... ___ http://www.meer.net/~arandir/
Re: [expert] 2 or more display card in Linux ?
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Lang Zhi wrote: Hi, Can Linux or X11 support 2 or more graphics card at once , like the Windoze98 idea ? XFree86 4.0 will. LLaP bero
[expert] 2 or more display card in Linux ?
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Re: [expert] 2 or more display card in Linux ?
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Lang Zhi wrote: Hi, Can Linux or X11 support 2 or more graphics card at once , like the Windoze98 idea ? You mean like "multihead". Sure. You can do whatever you want! (After all, you can have multiple people using the the same system simultaneously.) Take a look at "Xinerama", a project of Mandrake (of E fame). You can drag windows from screen A to screen B. Xinerama is supposed to be included in XFree86 4.0. I don't know how to do it, but a slightly different thing I've seen is having a monitor for "X", and another monochrome monitor for a console. Not being able to afford the luxury of a superflous (for me) monitor, I don't have any details. -- Arandir... ___ http://www.meer.net/~arandir/
Re: [expert] 2 or more display card in Linux ?
Ok, if we can do anything, why is the support staff at Mandrake told me I can't have more than one GUI open at once? And better, how can I do this. I LIKE Gui's. it fits how I think - in pictures. On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Lang Zhi wrote: Hi, Can Linux or X11 support 2 or more graphics card at once , like the Windoze98 idea ? You mean like "multihead". Sure. You can do whatever you want! (After all, you can have multiple people using the the same system simultaneously.) Take a look at "Xinerama", a project of Mandrake (of E fame). You can drag windows from screen A to screen B. Xinerama is supposed to be included in XFree86 4.0. I don't know how to do it, but a slightly different thing I've seen is having a monitor for "X", and another monochrome monitor for a console. Not being able to afford the luxury of a superflous (for me) monitor, I don't have any details. -- Arandir... ___ http://www.meer.net/~arandir/ -- Ty C. Mixon ICQ #: 26147713 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
