On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 10:24:04PM -0400, William Burrow wrote:
> Is it technically possible to construct a dual head machine by using two
> video cards (say a PCI and AGP card)? Any tips where to look?
Yes. You need XFree86 4 or later, and you want to read their documentation.
>From my dual head (Matrox and Matrox) machine:
Section "Device"
Identifier "MGA AGP"
Driver "mga"
VideoRam 8192
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "MGA PCI"
Driver "mga"
VideoRam 8192
BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen2"
Device "MGA AGP"
Monitor "Monitor2"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "MGA PCI "
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "dual"
Screen "Screen1"
Screen "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
EndSection
hope that helps...
-dsr-
