Thanks for the help. I finally got it working.
Roy
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----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dr. Richard E. Hewitt" <hewitt@maths.man.ac.uk>
To: "Roy Schestowitz" <sch@danielsorogon.com>
Cc: <linux-users@lists.man.ac.uk>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-users] 2 Monitors under Linux
> Roy,
> You might need to look up "xinerama" - essentially you need to configure
> two screens and two monitors in the XF86Config, then there is a section
> where one can define the screen layout (left & right) to match the
> monitor positions. Works fine for me with a single dual-head card.
>
> I can send you a sample XF86Config file if you can't find one online.
> r.
>
>
> --
> Dr. Richard E. Hewitt, Dept. of Mathematics
> University of Manchester. http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~hewitt
>
>
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 13:48:47 -0000
> "Roy Schestowitz" <sch@danielsorogon.com> wrote:
>
> > I have recently been having a really hard time configuring SuSe to
> > extend the display space to a second monitor. My video card has two
> > outputs which have so far worked happily in conjunction under Windows.
> > Under Linux, I get an identical output on both monitors and that's
> > rather useless.
> >
> > Does somebody know how to work with 2 monitors under Linux. Any
> > experience doing so? Or references perhaps?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Roy
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