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Quoting Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Rob Beard wrote: >> So, I wondered, is there anyone out there who's managed to get two >> independent X screens running. Ideally I'd like to be able to have two >> X screens running two different window managers (maybe Gnome/Metacity >> and possibly a lightwight one such as FWM) and have them behave as if >> they're completely independent using a pair of USB keyboards and mice. > >> I'd ideally like to stick with the ATI card (I have two of these cards >> installed at the moment which isn't really what I want but I can live >> with it if need be) but I'd be willing to move over to an NVidia card if >> I had to, although I chose ATI on the basis that it can use an Open >> Source driver (I really don't like running the FGLRX driver as Compiz >> doesn't work and playing video in a window is very slow). > > I've tried doing the dual keyboard/mouse thing with my laptop and I can > tell you now that's it's currently impossible to do it with a dual > output card- you need 2 independent cards because when you have a > dual-output card both screens are accessed with the same resources, so > you can't have one X server running on one screen and one on the other. > Ahh I see, I do have another X300 card which is plugged into the second PCI-E slot (it's an SLI board, but it detects both cards) which in theory would give me 4 monitor outputs. I'll keep playing and see if I can convince the PC to run with both cards. If not I guess I'll have to look at getting a different card, maybe an nVidia card and have two different cards in the PC. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html