[Novalug] parallel video

[Nino Pereira]

Maxwell,

Thank you for a very helpful response, of the type that I'd like to see
more of on the mailing list.

Nino


Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 17:53 -0400, Nino Pereira wrote:
>> List,
>>
>> can someone enlighten me on what happens when you have two video outputs?
> 
> Behind the scenes in Linux is a software technology called xrandr
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RandR).  It lets you build upon the lower
> level technology in Linux to control how you use your video outputs.
> 
> On modern day Linux distributions the Display Preferences
> (System->Preferences->Display) will act as a front-end to xrandr and let
> you control your output options.
>