Meanwhile, I've not actually done this myself, nor have I seen it
outside of a magazine, but yes it can be done. It's something I've
wanted to do, but becomes an expensive project if erally done right.
But Maximum Linux magazine did an article in their March/April 2001
edition about it.
The article was a review for the Matrox G200-MMS VGA card, but it can
be done with another Matrox card that has dual head technology. I
think I read in the article on the web page that you could actually
hook up 16 different monitors to the machine. The picture here in the
magazine shows 4 monitors. The Desktop was stretched to 2048x1536 so
there was one desktop displayed by 4 monitors. Icons in KDE were in
the top left monitor, while the time and date were in the lower right
monitor.
You may want to try the Matrox web site, or the Maximum Linux website
and check things out. I know the Matrox site was helpful when I looked
into it. However I ddn't have the $$$ at the time to buy a new monitor
and a $150 video card.
The mag said that hte highs for the card and this project were
"Unmatched capabilities for a single slot card. Easy configurations."
The lows were "Steep cost. Closed-source binaries." The card they
were talking about is a $700 card. But checking out the site there
is/was a card that was only $150 to the door I believe.
Hope that helps.
tdh
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