On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:08:05 +0000 Louise J M Worthington l.worthington@uea.ac.uk wrote:
It's a long shot, but does anyone know if its possible when using two monitors to have X running on only one of them a console on the other?
Thanks
Louise
I have done this, and run duel head for a day or two, with a flat sceen and a CRT screen to see what I thought, but have come to the conclusion that I will buy a a bigger flat screen soon rather than a second flat screen as it comes out a little cheaper, per pixel and is more intuitive.
Little bugs appear like applications that open windows in the middle of the screen, but nothing to stop you doing this. What I didn't like was with focus follows mouse under icewm keyboard control was even harder,and differences in color on both monitors became very clear.
To get it to work I added and AT Rage-II DVD to my box already with a Matroxs Mystique and it all just worked with the Attached X configuration file. The only Gotcha is that the PCI's physical order effects which card is the primary display.
Other cards may or not work I dont know, but these where the first two I tried as I only use Graphics cards well supported under Linux, so I tend to stick with ATI and Matox.
Regards
Owen
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes # before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the # "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below. # # To change things within the debconf section, run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 # as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz.
Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection
Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox1" Driver "mga" VideoRam 4000 BusID "PCI:0:08:0" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "ATI1" Driver "ati" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Mach64 3D RAGE II" BusID "PCI:00:10:0" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Hansol-H530" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0-63.0 VertRefresh 55.0-77.0 ModeLine "1024x768" 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync Option "DPMS" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Other" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0-63.0 VertRefresh 55.0-77.0 ModeLine "1024x768" 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync Option "DPMS" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 28-50 VertRefresh 43-75 Option "DPMS" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" #Device "ATI1" Device "Matrox1" Monitor "Hansol-H530" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen2" Device "ATI1" #Device "Matrox1" Monitor "Generic Monitor" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" Screen "Screen2" RightOf "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection
Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
### END DEBCONF SECTION
Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "true" EndSection
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection
Section "Files" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "unix/:7100" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection
Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Hansol-H530" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0-63.0 VertRefresh 55.0-77.0 ModeLine "1024x768" 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor2" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0-63.0 VertRefresh 55.0-77.0 ModeLine "1024x768" 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox1" Driver "mga" ChipSet "mgag200 PCI" VideoRam 4000 BusID "PCI:0:08:0" EndSection
Section "Device" Identifier "ATI1" Driver "ati" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Mach64 3D RAGE II" BusID "PCI:00:0a:0" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Matrox1" Monitor "Hansol-H530" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "ATI1" Monitor "Monitor2" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection
Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection