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Two Headed Penguins?

Posted by Cliff on from the two-users-same-interface-same-processor dept.

dmendesf asks: "The Octane2 workstation from SGI has a neat trick called PowerDuo that enables a single station to be driven by 2 keyboards, 2 mice and 2 monitors. Is it possible to do the same with Linux and USB mice, keyboards plus Dual Head videoboards?" How difficult would it be to develop an X11 solution to do this? Now take this a step further: could this be done with the secondary machine a network connection away?

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  1. Dual Head cards by MullerMn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm not sure if this applies to all dual head cards in Linux, but with my Nvidia GeForce 2 MX (using Nvidia's drivers; I don't think the free drivers can make the card do the dual headed thang) the dual display happens at the driver level.
    The main implication of this is that most applications (and X) have no idea they are running on a dual display, they just think I have one huge monitor. For me this means that they throw up dialogs and windows that land accross both displays which is a bit annoying, but in the project the poster mentions I could see problems if X can't recognise each monitor as an entirely separate display device.

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    Andy