[NTLUG:Discuss] DualHead and XFree86

[Steve Baker]

Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> Thanks....
> are you 100% sure about:
> 
>>Dualhead support works quite well with the GeForce - but
>>you need to have one analog monitor and one DVI monitor
>>(eg an LCD flat panel).
> 
> 
> I thought that I read that you could have two 'vga' type monitors
> with these cards. If it's really one DVI and one VGA, that's 
> a show stopper for me. I want to use two existing 19"+ monitors
> that I already have. 

Well, unless you've found a version of the card with two analog
connectors - no.   The standard cards have one conventional
D-type connector for VGA-style video and one 26 pin DVI connector.

It may be that one of the card manufacturers makes one with two
analog connectors instead (it would only be a matter of duplicating
the analog circuitry) - and there is certainly at least one board
that supports two DVI ports.

> Someone else pointed out that I might just want to use a single
> monitor setup and a X-Term type device for the second monitor. 

You might as well run two complete PC's and just network them.

In hardware terms, there is no difference between an X-term and
a full-up PC...but if you *use* it as an X-term, you get much
slower graphics and the 'main' PC ends up doing twice as much
work.

> I am going to look at that first before I go and buy a new video 
> card. I have a Ultra5 that I could use as the X-Terminal to get 
> the second Linux session up and running. I think I'll play with 
> that first. 

Yep.

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