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Generally used to describe a video card capable of running two displays.
Also used to describe a computer set up with two displays connected
-This page has been created primarily to link to some notes on how to acheive the later
of these
+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 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 [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 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 Nvidia based cards see DualHeadNvidia
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+For Ati/radeon based cards see DualHeadAti.
