> Chris, I myself have a matrox dual-head g400 max. I need to get my > second monitor back from a friend, and then I can test its dual-head > support. However, I have a feeling that in order to get both ports to > work, I will need to run the Matrox supplied xf86 4.0.1 driver. Could please send me your experiences with that setup?
> (A slightly related question; how would you choose between the two > heads, when one is in X and one is in text? Is this easy on some > platform? Is there an easy way to get my i386 machine to have two > completely seperate X servers/keyboards/mice to go at once? :) There is some sort of plugin on freshmeat that extends your desktop that way - you get desktop on two monitors and when your mouse comes to the edge of one of them your active monitor switches to the other. And when your run two X-servers on two /dev/fb's you can ran them on different consoles ( alt-F9 agp, alt-f10 pci ), this is the way I set it up. And wait, when you get two mice keyboards and monitors.. why don't get another comp? besides, you can write only on one k-board without problems, so another k-board would be just a case a case of - how fast can i move to another k-board, or maybe it's faster to press alt-sth ? I've got also a question about additional pointing devices with X, there is some option about it in config, anyone knows anything? regards, Eyck