dual head on laptop

[crichey at gmail.com (Collins Richey)]

On 11/23/05, Sudev Barar <sbarar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

Ubuntu 5.10 with wdm/icewm. 512MB and 1G swap. Top indicates that swap
is never touched.



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Collins Richey
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