How to set up Puppy to use Multiple Monitors?

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How to set up Puppy to use Multiple Monitors?

#1 Post by RMW »

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.

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#2 Post by MU »

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.

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#3 Post by rarsa »

Also, the JWM that comes with puppy is compiled without Xinerama.

Compiling it with Xinerama is not a big deal.

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#4 Post by RMW »

Took a look at the commercial Nvidia drivers. Unfortunately they require recompiling the kernel, something I'm not quite ready to attempt. Especially since I'm using a Poor Man's install (files on NTFS file system), which would mean monkeying around with image.gz, etc.

Oh well, maybe in the future.

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#5 Post by Lobster »

Maybe with two computers this sort of set up might be possible:
http://quicksynergy.sourceforge.net/

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#6 Post by BarryK »

Puppy 1.0.7 will have Xorg, and hence Xinerama support, but it may take awhile longer to recompile many of the apps that were compiled with Xinerama support disabled.

Is JWM the most urgent?

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#7 Post by MU »

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

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