Dual Head

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 12:06 +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> 
> Running two X servers in this configuration will probably not work. The 
> two heads of the card share some resources and I'm not sure if the X 
> servers will be able to cooperate on those.
> 
> I don't understand why just running one X server in multi head mode with 
> Xinerama disabled doesn't do what you want. In this mode you get two

I didn't know that yet ;) I don't have hardware at hand to test.

> screens :0.0 and :0.1. Windows are explicitely attached to one of the 
> screens and cannot be moved to the other screen without magic.

That does indeed sound like what I want though.

> This mode should work with the radeon 9250 (I'm using a radeon 9200 is 
> this configuration): just set up 2 device sections for the 2 pci devices 
> that show up (1:0:0 and 1:0:1) and 2 screen sections. See the radeon(4) 
> manual page for configuration details.

Will Xv work on both screens? (Unlike Xinerama, where it only works on
the first one).


Cheers,

Andrew