Re: Re: Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-04 Thread Frank H. Baker
My setup is much like yours, though I have two nVidia 8400GS boards, running the console off one and the other two monitors off the other, a VGA driving one monitor and a DVI the other, and I installed the nVidia driver. Though I have been aware of TwinView, the "twin" made me think it was adapted

Re: Re: Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-03 Thread Frank H. Baker
Camaleón: Many thanks for responding to my query. Let me try to clear up the ambiguities you raise by expanding the explanation of my problem. I want to present images on two monitors that show only objects that my program writes to the two screens. (These will be used for visual science experi

Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-02 Thread Frank H. Baker
I have a question about controlling displays in a multi head system. I have three monitors connected to my computer, and I want the console to display on one of these and the other two to be unadorned. I am running the current Debian distribution, which on boot displays a desktop on all three scre

Multihead display without a desktop on second monitor

2004-07-22 Thread Frank H. Baker
I have a 3 head system: one display for the console and two others for showing graphics on a clean (unadorned) screen that I control simply using xlib functions. This configuration has been working as prescribed under Mandrake 9.0, but when I tried installing it on Debian sarg/Linux 2.6, the unif