dual head on laptop

[sbarar at gmail.com (Sudev Barar)]

On 11/24/05, Collins Richey <crichey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks. I couldn't get your suggestion to work, but a little RTFM in
> the man pages came up with
>
> 'xinit ./second -- :1.0'. This  does the job. ~/second is
>
> #!/bin/sh
> xsetroot -solid black &
> ooffice sample.xsi
>
> My system (at the moment I'm booted from Ubuntu) doesn't like the
> unadorned ':1'. I'll have to verify when I boot CentOS.
>

Funny. I am running Ubuntu 5.04 on my Compaq PresarioM2000 right now
and startx works perfectly. What is the memory and swap setting? I am
having a machine with 512MB RAM and 2GB swap.

IAC you found a possible answer!!
--
Sudev Barar
Learning Linux