two monitors ?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > From: "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
> > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Vu Pham wrote:
> > > Under Windows, I can have two separate monitors if my video card has two
> > > heads. Can I do the same thing under Linux ?
> > > Or do I have to have two separate cards ?
> >
> > If you install the nvidia X driver, then yes, you can do it with one
> > NVIDIA videocard.  Your choices are Twinview, Xinerama or 2 X screens.
>
> Could you elaborate on the differences between these three. Thanks.

TwinView is an nvidia driver specific feature, which makes two display
devices look like one big X screen.  You can seemlessly move windows
between the 2 display devices.

Xinerama, on the surface, is functionally similar to TwinView.

Two X screens are just an X screen on each display, with no properties in
common between them. You can *NOT* move windows between them.

See the NVIDIA driver README for more details:
http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8762/README/index.html

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