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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 9:40:26 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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This page has been created primarily to link to some notes on how to acheive the later 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 or use two cards to run the two displays.
For the two card setup see DualHeadTwoCard
-For DualHead cards the setup is somewhat specific to the brand of card you have
+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].
-For
Nvidia based cards see DualHeadNvidia
+Nvidia based cards use their own method -
see TwinView.
-For Ati/radeon based cards see DualHeadAti
+For Ati/radeon based cards see DualHeadAti.
