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Monday, February 06 2012 @ 04:39 PM

Sparcstation 5 dual video cards

Hardware compatibilityHow do I enable both video cards in X for a Sparcstation 5? Under sunos X used the second display while the console used the 1st. I would loveto allow X to use both displays. I do not know if any of the multimon setups for X work on sun hardware.


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Authored by: crn on Friday, April 08 2005 @ 09:48 PM Sparcstation 5 dual video cards
[ how to use multiple screens in X ]

Sorry - not something I have tried.
X is an application, so a generic Linux HOWTO should help.
Linux documentation can be found at http://www.tldp.org/
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 10 2005 @ 03:29 AM Sparcstation 5 dual video cards
I will also admit that I have never done this
(on IBM PC or SPARC)
In fact, I'm stuck to the serial port since I do
not have a Sun keyboard, so I cannot use a monitor on the sparc station.

After saying all that...

It looks like you might want to do
man XF86Config

read up on the multi-head configuration.
do a search on "head" :)

You'll have to specify each graphic card in the Device
section, and I guess each monitor in the Screen section.
Then you can specify under Server Layout how you want the screens to look. (one to the right or left of the other).

Good luck with it. Hope it works.
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