Dual monitor support?
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Dual monitor support?
started by: ShadowSystems
Posted by ShadowSystems on June 29 2006,13:51
First off, YES I know that ATI is a poor-choice for Linux distro's given their abysmal history of working with the *NIX community, but I don't have the money to buy anything else, I have to use what I've got. (Unless you'd like to donate an nVidia card to me? 
)My card is an ATI Radeon Xpress 600 Pro, 256Mb DDR PCIe card.
I can config DOS to give me two separate monitors; Windows XP allows me to do this with just a few clicks of the mouse; but is there a n00b-friendly way to get this under *NIX in general, DSL specificly?
Posted by cbagger01 on July 02 2006,15:20
I assume you could do it with Xfree86.dsl extension, but you have a fairly new card so no guarantees.
Posted by ShadowSystems on July 02 2006,20:44
Ok, thanks...It kinda bites to have two 19" LCD's that I can use under everything except *NIX.
(Sighs)
I'm too used to having all my "notice" apps open in one monitor, & all my "working" apps in the other.
Posted by cbagger01 on July 03 2006,17:26
I am confident that you CAN use it under *NIX, but you might need a newer X Windows server such as the XOrg server.For example, download a copy of the KNOPPIX 5.01 LiveCD and burn yourself a disk. Then give it a try.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 03 2006,20:00
Afaik, if you can get XFree86 working, all you need to do is load a generic dual-monitor configuration for it. (see XFree86Config-4)If somehow there is a limitation in doing this, you could always try doing this with the proprietary drivers. (as I don't see XOrg coming to DSL soon... unless you use another distro as previously suggested)
Posted by ShadowSystems on July 04 2006,00:25
Ok, thanks... I'll go grab the latest Knoppix distro and give it a shot.
Posted by Kuprin on July 18 2006,15:18
Yeah, given your situation I'm not sure if DSL is the distro for you, but I can vouch for dual-monitor support on *NIX in general, because I know so many people doing it.