Do not blame the actual Linux operating system dual screen display

Most video cards on the market today come with two video outputs (dual VGA or dual DVI or VGA + DVI). With Windows XP, we can easily configure dual display with double display area. So, for some Linux enthusiasts, is it also available under Linux? The author has been groping on VNIDIA's graphics card, the answer is yes. The Linux distribution: Fedora Core 3 (hereinafter referred to as FC3) is taken as an example to give the configuration process.

Related hardware: Display card: GeFore4 MX440 8X dual VGA output; Display: TCL 15-inch CRT, EMC 15-inch CRT

Related software: Linux distribution: Fedora Core 3; NVIDIA driver 7167

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Note: All operations in Linux require Use the root user.

The first step is to determine the order in which the two displays are connected to the graphics card, and to tell you a simple and easy way: open “display properties" in Windows XP, open “set”tab Click on the “Identify (I)” button, then you will see 1, 2, and the rest will not need to be said. On my machine, TCL is No. 1, EMC is No. 2, No. 1 is on the left, and No. 2 is on the right. Figure 1.

Figure 1

In the second step, go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html and select the appropriate driver to download. Note: Linux IA32 means that we are suitable for general 32-bit Intel PCs, such as: P2, P#, P4, Celeron, etc.; Linux IA64 means computer for Intel Itanium CPU; Linux AMD64/EMT64 means suitable for supporting AMD64 Or 64-CPU computers with EMT64 technology, such as Athlon64 3000+ or ​​PENTIUM 4 630. The author's CPU is Intel Pentium 4 2.4C, so choose Linux IA32.