Matrox G450 will work on RHEL3. But may have difficulties on RHEL4. You can run two different WMs on two separate screens. --George Harrington, Todd wrote: >Hi Mark, > >Thanks. That was a great reply. So, If I select 2 graphics cards, and I run one instance of XFree86 on 2 graphics cards, can I then run a window manager on one graphics card and just the X server itself on the other? Is this a low-risk configuration if I commit to doing it? In other words, will almost any graphics card that I purchase that allows me to run XFree86 on it by itself work in this configuration? > >As far dual-head goes, I was looking the Matrox G450. > >Thanks! >Todd > >-----Original Message----- >From: xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On >Behalf Of Mark Vojkovich >Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 1:27 PM >To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Dual Screens > > > You can run one instance of XFree86 on multiple graphics cards >simultaneously. These will show up as separate X screens. This >all depends on which cards you were planning on using and how >advanced is the driver support for them. Some dual-head cards may >support this if they support a separate-screens mode (separate-screens >are required if the two heads will have different X visuals). I'm >more optimistic about this working for separate cards rather than >a single dual-head card, but it just depends which cards you were >trying to use. If you happen to have some graphics cards lying >around, it would be good to experiment before commiting to something. > > Mark. > >On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Harrington, Todd wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>We are going to be running RedHat Enterprise v3 or v4 and want to be able to run two displays with different images on them. One will be a general purpose X Windowing system with keyboard and mouse and the display will be a Viewsonic LCD. The second display will run an X windowing system and will be used to display graphics to a monochrome black/green display. >> >>Is this dual "independent" display feature part of XFree86 4.x? Or do I need a special graphics card? Can I use any graphics card to do this? Can I use a dual headed card to save some PCI slots. >> >>Thanks, >>Todd >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>XFree86 mailing list >>XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx >>http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
