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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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>Dual (or more) Monitor support</H3>
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<p><strong>From Stamatis Sarlis on Mon, 04 Sep 2000
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<p align="right">Answered by: Jim Dennis</p>
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Dear Answer Guy,
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I wonder if Linux (and XFree) supports 2 or more VGA cards in the same =
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PC. If not, is there any commercial XServer that can support more than 1 =
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VGA ? Where can I find more informations about this issue ?
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Thank you in advance for your help
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The latest version of XFree (version 4.x) support "Xinerama" which
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includes multi-headed support. However, I haven't tried that yet.
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XFree86 version 4.x will probably be included in the next major
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releases of each mainstream Linux distribution; so look for it
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in a few months if you don't want to try downloading, building and
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The two major commercial X server packages for Linux support
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multiple heads as well. I forget which is which but in one
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of them the multi-headed support is part of the main package, in
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the other it is a separate version of the package. These two
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X packages are:
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<BLOCKQUOTE><DL><DT>
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X-inside: Xig Inc
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<DD><A HREF="http://www.xig.com"
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>http://www.xig.com</A>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><DL><DT>
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Metro-X:
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<DD><A HREF="http://www.metrolink.com"
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>http://www.metrolink.com</A>
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... note: I think it is the latter of these that offers multi-head
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support (as well as support for some touch screens and many
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proprietary laptop chipsets) in their base package. I think
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that Xig's products are separated among multi-head, laptop and
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desktop versions.
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