Re: Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:20:34 -0400, Frank H. Baker wrote: > 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 h

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: Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:10:40 -0400, Frank H. Baker wrote: > 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. (...) > However, when > I use, for instance, the Gnome desktop for my console on a th

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

Re: Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-03 Thread Joe
Frank H. Baker wrote: 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

Re: Controlling displays on a multi head system

2010-04-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:10:24 -0400, Frank H. Baker wrote: > 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 Debia

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