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- From: gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk (George Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: 2 Heads under X on a SS1?
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 10:43:10 GMT
- References: <JEFF.92Dec16165227@dsp.sps.mot.com>
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- In article <JEFF.92Dec16165227@dsp.sps.mot.com>, jeff@dsp.sps.mot.com (Jeff Enderwick) writes:
- > hey! I've got a SS1, X11R5, a GX, an older GX (2 Sbus slots), and two
- > 16" color monitors. I'd like to get the dual-screen single display thing
- > running (not adjacentscreen). Has anyone tried this?
-
- The MIT R5 server can only drive one of any type of framebuffer -- it will
- happily drive a cgthree and a cgsix, for example, but not two cgsixes. What
- you need is contrib/R5.Xsun.multi-screen.tar.Z from export.lcs.mit.edu or its
- shadows. We have several multi-head machines using it.
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