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From: John Oliver on 9 Nov 2006 19:38
I have three users with Dell Precision 380 workstations running Red Hat
WS 4. How do I get the second monitor to be something other than a
duplicate of the primary display? Which video driver do I need?

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From: Sam on 9 Nov 2006 20:32
John Oliver writes:

> I have three users with Dell Precision 380 workstations running Red Hat
> WS 4. How do I get the second monitor to be something other than a
> duplicate of the primary display? Which video driver do I need?

It depends on your video card. Unless someone remembers by heart the exact
video hardware in this specific Dell model, you'll need to look it up
yourself.

Chances are this server has Nvidia hardware in it, and the only way to get
dual monitor support is with the proprietary nvidia binary blob
pseudo-source, that needs to be manually compiled.

See today's major flamewar on the fedora-list to get the idea of what's life
like with Nvidia's binary blob.


From: Aragorn on 9 Nov 2006 20:37
On Friday 10 November 2006 01:38, John Oliver stood up and addressed the
masses in /comp.os.linux.misc/ as follows...:

> I have three users with Dell Precision 380 workstations running Red Hat
> WS 4. How do I get the second monitor to be something other than a
> duplicate of the primary display? Which video driver do I need?

You'll need to set up X.Org with the /xinerama/ extension. There should be
a /HowTo/ on that at http://www.tldp.org. ;-)

If the machine has a nVidia graphics adapter, then it's also possible to do
without /xinerama./ nVidia provides an extension to their driver
called /TwinView./ See the nVidia driver package for information on
that. ;-)

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*Aragorn*
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From: ray on 9 Nov 2006 21:12
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:38:24 +0000, John Oliver wrote:

> I have three users with Dell Precision 380 workstations running Red Hat
> WS 4. How do I get the second monitor to be something other than a
> duplicate of the primary display? Which video driver do I need?

I have always found the xinerama howto at tldp.org to be invaluable.
Besides giving you step by step directions, you'll get a much better feel
for how X works. There may be easier ways now, I've not done this for a
few years, but it is still a very good way to go.

From: Jim on 10 Nov 2006 03:45
John Oliver came up with this when s/he headbutted the keyboard a moment ago
in comp.os.linux.misc:

> I have three users with Dell Precision 380 workstations running Red Hat
> WS 4. How do I get the second monitor to be something other than a
> duplicate of the primary display? Which video driver do I need?
>

assuming the lowest graphics option (FX3450 PCI-E), use the NVidia
proprietery driver (download from NVidia) and the settings manager
included. Advanced options such as 3D and multiple screens/TVOut are not
available until these drivers are installed.

HTH.

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