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Re: [TCLUG:18782] Dual monitor saga continues



Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> Bob Tanner wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Peter Lukas (peter@math.umn.edu):
> > > You can set the PCI Video to be the secondary display device in the
> > > system's BIOS.  I had a dual G200/G400 configuration running very well.  I
> > > can send you the config if you like.
> > >
> > > On a sidenote, has anyone been able to configure a Matrox G400MAX to use
> > > dual monitors in X 4.0?  Only the Xi dual-head server works (at a lame
> > > 1280x1024 or less).
> >
> > Please post your config, let's share with everyone. :-)
> >
> > >From the documentation, it looks like Xinerama is only enabled with the
> > +xinerama open to the X server? No way to activate this in the config?
> 
> Near as I can tell, yup. If you're using XDM, edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
> :
> 
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X +xinerama

...or you can edit ~/.xserverrc, I imagine:

	exec X +xinerama

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