On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 15:48:08 -0400 Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 02:16:58PM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > > Greetings > > > > My long time mentor in things Linux (described himself as a fossil) > > is no longer with us. (He suggested that I strongly consider using > > Devuan which I now have on one system.) > > He was of the opinion that Wayland - - - whatever its exact > > function, was really not worth running. > > Yet it is being touted as the X11 replacement and is now supposedly > > capable of handling both multi-gpu and multi-monitor setups. > > If I recall correctly from way back in the early 90's on actual Unix > systems, X already had a mechanism for handling multiple monitors. > Has that fallen from X becuse of decades of bit-rot? Still there. Mode line are a thing of the past as for the last fourto three versions, it has mostly automagically worked for me for my PCs. YMMV depending on your hardware, e.g various laptops. > > Don't know about multiple GPUs sending to a single monitor, though. My 2c is to do it via a 'switch'. Either physical or maybe the input selector switch on your monitor, Caveat I've never done that as I either ssh -X or stick a second monitor on the other boxen. X has been fine for me although most of my boxen are X free headless servers. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
