Aqua-Soft ForumsI know that a few of you use linux, do any of you have dual displays that work in Linux? Do you know how to do it? I have tried for about a year now to find a way to get it to work. I know it is possible, anyone know how? PLEASE HELP!
Thanks.
Dual Displays In Linux
well.. i know i have seen it... you gotta configure some stuff in the Xfree86 config file for different displays...umm i saw it somewhere go to
a very nice help community.. post about it there im sure yo ucan get alot more help from there!! 
good luck!
-bolero
I have dual displays (PCI TNT2 and AGP GF4MX) and Mandrake just detected it when I installed it, no config necessary.
ahh good old mandrake 
mandrake has had that since 8.0 i believe.. hehe its a good distro
but some hardcore linux's that when it comes to system configs.. is all done manually..but i think theres a nice huge section at justlinux.com for some info about different thinks that can help out for anything else as well
-bolero
Im not a linux expert, so I like handholding. Im gonna download Slackware 9 when it comes out in a few days.
Thought I would check back. I have now figured out how to do this. It was crazy and as you can see has taken me a significant amount of time to figure out, but I now have dual monitors in Linux. However, my screenshots will not be as pretty anymore, because my kicker now shows up in the middle of the two screens. I have not figured out how to get it to stop that as well as the fact that my external taskbar spans both screens.
I havent been able to get dual displays in Slackware yet, its having trouble detecting my PCI TNT2, how did you get it to work, and what distro?
You aren't going to like this, Lindows. However, it had nothing to do with the distro, it has everything to do with being able to manually edit your XF86config-4 file. I can email you mine if you want to try.
*HINT*
Before you start copy the file from /etc/X11 to your /root/Desktop folder.
That way, if it doesn't work, from command line you can just
cp /root/Desktop/XF86config-4 /etc/X11
startx
and it will work like it did before you edited it. And also, keep a copy of the file you edited that way you are not starting from scratch every time.
Hope I can help.
Oh, you havent gotten a real distro yet? Just kidding, but Im loving Slackware, super fast and stable, and free.
Just tell me what you added to your config file. Do you have a PCI and AGP Video card, or a dual head Video card?
I have a dual head, but that doesn't matter... you still have to add two entries for it. That is actually what tripped me up for so long.
You have to add:
2 screens
2 monitors
2 device (video cards)
Then a server layout.
Here is how I set it up.
Video Card (dual head=two entries)
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "ati"
Option "DPMS"
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "crt_screen"
Option "Xinerama"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device2"
Driver "ati"
Option "DPMS"
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "crt_screen"
Option "Xinerama"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
double your screens and identify them as screen 1 and screen 2, double your monitors call them monitor 1 and monitor 2.
Server layout:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
Screen 0 "Screen1" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen2" LeftOf "Screen1"
Option "Xinerama"
Option "TwinView" "true"
InputDevice "Keyboard1"
InputDevice "Mouse1"
EndSection
I hope this helps. Any more questions just ask.
I got the taskbar thing figured out...
Upgrade to KDE 3.1 and it all works well. However, I would not recommend that upgrade for the faint of heart. It does not like to play nice with your existing system.
Anyway here is a screenie:
Thanks for the help. I already had both my video card entrys in there, just had to enable dual monitors. Cool stuff, but Unreal Tournament 2003 doesnt like 2 monitors (espcecially my TNT2) so ive had to disable it. Do you guys game on Linux, I finally put Linux on a good computer, so ive installed UT2003, and I get like 15FPS more in Linux than in Windows, and in Windows, I was killing processes all over the place for performance, and in Linux, I dont have to kill anything. Linux is definitly, the best gaming platform, I cant wait for the New Duke Nukem and Doom 3.
No Problem on the help front...
The only reason I know how to do it is because others helped me.
No I do not game at all. I have an ati radeon 7000ve which is cool as a workstation, but not much for gaming.
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