On 20-Sep-2001 Dominik Vogt threw those bytes in the wire :
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:45:28AM +0200, Markus Grunwald wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > quite soon, I'm going to buy a new graphics card. The multihead
> > capabilities of some cards seem interesting, but I wonder how I can use it
> > with X, specially with fvwm2.
> >
> > What possibilies do I have ? Can I for example run one seperate fvwm-desk
> > on each screen ?
>
> First, you need an X server that supports multi head displays.
> Most commercial UNIXes have one (but I can't tell you how to
> configure it). XFree 4.x has multi head and Xinerama support
> (you'll want the most recent version you can lay your hands on).
>
> Second, you need a supported video card. If you intend to use two
> video cards with XFree, there is or was a big problem in getting
> the second card initialised (the BIOS does not do this). I tried
> a number of different card and could run a dual screen setup only
> with two Matrox cards. If you want to buy a single card with dual
> monitor support this shouldn't be an issue.
>
> Third, you have to decide wether to use Xinerama or traditional
> dual screen. Xinerama treats both screens as a single big one and
> fvwm manages both screens. Xinerama support is new in 2.4.1.
Hey! I didn't know about that. What exactly is the support
provided to xinerama ? I mean what would be different than
using any WM with xinerama since the WM just sees that there
is one X server and it's huge ?
Thanks
Stephane
> If you don't have Xinerama you have to use two screens. This
> works basically the same, but you can't move windows between the
> screens and have to start a separate fvwm on each screen (fvwm
> does this by default if it detects multiple screens).
>
> Bye
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>
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Received on Thu Sep 20 2001 - 05:59:55 BST