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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 latter of these
two definitions

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).

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 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.

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Last edited on Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:11:05 am by JohnMcPherson

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