Ok, bear with me, cause you know I'm an idiot when it comes to Linux.
I have an Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4800 video card, which supports multiple monitors. And, naturally, two monitors. In WinXP this is very convenient, allows me to spread things out a bit, show a spreadsheet on one monitor while I work on a math application in the other one. The two monitors have different max resolutions, refresh rates, etc.
Is there any way to set Puppy up to use multiple monitors? Currently when running Puppy both monitors display the same image, at the same resolution, etc.
How to set up Puppy to use Multiple Monitors?
You will need x.org and the commercial binary nvidia-driver from nvidia itself.
Here are example-entries for xorg.conf:
http://juano.blogdns.org/index.php/2005 ... a-sur-xorg
Google for "xinerama nvidia" brings more.
However I have not read yet of someone trying the nvidia-binary in puppy.
I think it comes with a shellscript -installer.
But as that is not optimized for Puppy, it might corrupt Puppy.
So make a backup of pup001 before trying it.
Mark
Here are example-entries for xorg.conf:
http://juano.blogdns.org/index.php/2005 ... a-sur-xorg
Google for "xinerama nvidia" brings more.
However I have not read yet of someone trying the nvidia-binary in puppy.
I think it comes with a shellscript -installer.
But as that is not optimized for Puppy, it might corrupt Puppy.
So make a backup of pup001 before trying it.
Mark
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Maybe with two computers this sort of set up might be possible:
http://quicksynergy.sourceforge.net/
http://quicksynergy.sourceforge.net/
I think nvidia uses "twinview" in their binary driver, an own technique.
I don't know if the free nv-Xserver for x.org supports xinerama.
For testing you can use this fluxbox:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=4245
It works with xinerama, if you edit /usr/local/bin/startfluxbox
and replace
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
with
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox xinerama
Mark
I don't know if the free nv-Xserver for x.org supports xinerama.
For testing you can use this fluxbox:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=4245
It works with xinerama, if you edit /usr/local/bin/startfluxbox
and replace
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
with
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox xinerama
Mark