Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
You have that correct Andreas Wrede. Yes indeed Windows 98 from Micro$oft, does
indeed have dual head support. I do not operate that way here because the Video
Card selected by Dell for Dr. Who (The computer!), is not exactly a production
item from AST. It is an AST Rage Pro 128 type card, which is supposed to be
supported by XFree 4.01, which I have for Linux. But just try to find it! But
this card contains special features that Dell ordered from them. And I thought
I as an OEM was an eccentric.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Andreas Wrede
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 10:42 AM
> To: Todd Whitesel
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Multiple VGA cards
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:
>
> > [sorry if this is redundant, I'm way behind on mail right now]
>
> Not redundant at all, thanks for the insight!
>
> > I've studied this in depth, and so far the most progress that anyone has
> > made is present in XFree 4, where they have code to bring up some cards
> > from scratch and get them into graphics mode.
>
> So that explains why 'dual-head' support is listed as a feature for
> some drivers in XFree 4 and not others. Right now, I am running XFree
> 4.0.1 successfully in Xinerama mode across two Matrox cards, one G400
> and one old 2064W. I just would have liked to have them run as two
> independent X server, with separate keyboards and mice. I guess since
> the X server needs an underlying wscons/pcvt device I am out of luck.
>
> > This is one of those obnoxious things that should be simple, but it's not,
> > because of the idiocy of how the PC market designs products.
>
> I hear that some MS Windows version now have dual-head support, so
> maybe with will change?
> --
>     - aew
>