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Posted: May 08 2007,09:29 QUOTE

How to instal in DSL two monitors?

And I have a poroblem: only 2 consoles.
in inittab 4...
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Posted: May 08 2007,13:46 QUOTE

If you mean that you would like DSL to display on two monitors, I would guess that you would have to use XFree86  - I never tried this however...
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Posted: May 08 2007,14:12 QUOTE

No, i mean 2 monitors in frame buffer.
How to do it?

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There are some cool features of the framebuffer devices, in that you can give generic options to the kernel at bootup-time, including options specific to a particular framebuffer device. These are:

video=xxx:off - disable probing for a particular framebuffer device
video=map:octal-number - maps the virtual consoles (VCs) to framebuffer (FB) devices
video=map:01 will map VC0 to FB0, VC1 to FB1, VC2 to FB0, VC3 to FB1..
video=map:0132 will map VC0 to FB0, VC1 to FB1, VC2 to FB3, VC4 to FB2, VC5 to FB0..


PS: Smth strange with consoles: switching by ctrl-alt-
f1 - booting information, commands not writes, if push ctrl+c f2 console shutdown X;
f2 - X;
f3 - nothing, not work;
f4 - nothing, not work.

Who it solve?
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Posted: May 08 2007,15:01 QUOTE

when i write in /boot/grub/menu.lst

in kernel boot param:
video=map:01

and reboot.
Kernel outs debug information :(
It seems that i must recofigure kernel. If so, would you tell me how? Thank you!
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Posted: May 08 2007,15:11 QUOTE

From the framebuffer howto, multihead section:
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14.6 What hardware is supported?

Most video cards assume they will be the only one in the system and are permanently set with the addressing of the primary display adapter. There are a few exceptions.

* Matrox cards: This includes Matrox Millennium, Matrox Millennium II, Matrox Mystique, Matrox Mystique 220, Matrox Productiva G100, Matrox Mystique G200, Matrox Millennium G200 and Matrox Marvel G200 video cards

* MDA: This includes monochrome Hercules graphics adapter among others. This for text only second head support.

Note: it's only the second adapter that has to be one of the above.

I've done it with full X, and I think you can do it with TinyX too. So boot in console mode (runlevel 2)
and run
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Xvesa :0.0 &&
Xvesa :0.1
This should start X on both of your screens. If it works, then report back and let's modify your startx script...


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