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This page has been created primarily to link to some notes on how to acheive the latter of these
two definitions
-There are basically two ways to acheive a dual head setup, you need either a DualHead video card or use two cards to run the two displays.
+There are basically two ways to acheive a dual head setup, you need either a DualHead video card (a video card that supports 2 displays),
or use two cards to run the two displays (ie one display each)
.
-For the two card setup see DualHeadTwoCard
+The [X11] protocol has long had support for multiple cards.
For the [XOrg] server, this is done by configuring multiple "Device" and "Screen" sections in the <tt>xorg.conf</tt> file.
-For DualHead cards the setup is somewhat specific to the brand of card you have. For [XOrg] you can use it's
<tt>Xinerama</tt> extension, but some cards/drivers use their own method for dual head.
+For DualHead cards the setup is somewhat specific to the brand of card you have. For [XOrg] you can use its
<tt>Xinerama</tt> extension, but some cards/drivers use their own method for dual head.
For an example of dual-head using Xinerama, (with the Intel i810/i915 graphics chipset + driver), see [i915-xorg.conf].
Nvidia based cards use their own method - see TwinView.
For Ati/radeon based cards see DualHeadAti.
