Re: [SLE] 2 heads

From: Stanley Long (slong_at_customcpu.com)
Date: 06/26/05

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    Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:10:49 -0800

    Tim Hanson wrote:
    > I'm ready to take the plunge into double monitor-land. Intuition tells me
    > that all I need to do is hang another video card into the chassis, hook up
    > another monitor, fire it up, and configure it with sax2. Is it that easy?

    Just about that easy, yes.

    If you find an old PCI video card (or two), you can do a no-cost test.
    YAST doesn't care if you use different cards.

    At about SuSE 8.2, YAST had a problem of not wanting to recognize the
    2nd monitor if initially set up on just one head, even for dual head
    video cards. Also, it seems SuSE people mostly assume one always wants
    one wide display across both monitors. Xinerama does that combined
    display presentation.

    CAD people want the largest possible screens for the CAD, and often
    prefer the separated 2nd screen for anything else that should be visible
    at the same time as the work layout. ie, web page catalog sheets for
    machinery, photographs of work being drawn, calculation tools,
    specification text, email or text files ...

    Two separate screens (non-Xinerama) make FAST highlight-drag-n-drop
    transfers from one application into another. Yep, the curser carries the
    stuff across between monitors even though applications are limited to
    one or the other.

    Matrox G-450/550 dual head AGP video works just fine here. Be aware that
    2nd display has slower clock capability than the 1st display.
    http://www.varicad.com is rather useful, even if not OSS.

    If two screens are not enough, try fvwm desktop w/ 6x2 virtual screens
    per monitor desktop and try sliding live apps from one virtual screen to
    an adjacent v.s. 

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