[ltp] T30 Multihead display?

[Tino Keitel]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 16:44:15 +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> Some time back there was a discussion about using Xinerama extensions 
> under XFree86 on the T30. From what I understood, it is possible to 
> address the internal display and the external display port (connected to a 
> monitor or projector) independently.
> 
> I have been trying to figure this out, but that wall I keep running into 
> appears to be made of stronger stuff than my forehead :-(
> 
> My actual intention is to be able to plug a projector into teh external 
> display port and then show slides or other applications, while seeing 
> something else on my LCD display. 
> 
> I understand that this is possible if you run two X servers, one pointing 
> at the local LCD, one at teh external port, but the ATI Radeon 7500 in 
> this machine seems to have a single PCI ID, so am unsure how to proceed.
> 
> So - can someone point me at a resource that tells me whether this can be 
> done at all, and if so, how?

Just give the same PCI ID to both device sections.

<http://home.arcor.de/scorpidnb/XF86Config-4>

Regards,
Tino