[PLUG] Dual-headed system

Derek Loree derek at infotects.com
Mon Oct 28 23:24:38 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 15:20, Galen Seitz wrote:
> > > 
> > > Based on this message from the lkml, it sounds like what Ed wants to do
> > > is possible.
> > 
> > Your right!  A little more digging, and I found this:
> > 
> > http://old.lwn.net/1999/0513/a/multihead.html
> > 
> > Which is a little on the old side, but the basic idea is there. 
> > Apparently most MDA cards do support multiple heads, not sure who told
> > me that they didn't.
> > 
> 
> Looks like that howto got sucked into the Framebuffer HOWTO.
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-14.html
> 
> "Thanks go to Rick Niles frederick.a.niles at gsfc.nasa.gov who has very kindly 
> handed over his Multi-Head Mini-HOWTO for inclusion in this HOWTO."
> 
Too bad it hasn't been updated for Xfree86 version 4, and 2.4 kernels.

Good find.

Derek






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