[olug] SLES 9 xscreensaver dual head

Rob Townley rob.townley at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 20:27:00 UTC 2006


This is exactly what i am looking for, how many hours did it take to
setup?  Is there still a great deal of manual labor involved?

p.s. I wish i would have remembered that last night you were open till
11:00pm and have inexpensive used video cards.

On 2/22/06, Jay Swackhamer <Jay at reboottheuser.com> wrote:
> Dual monitor/mouse/keyboard  requires that you have multiple consoles
> setup, which requires a kernel/X setup for the additional consoles.
>
> i.e. you would have a console with virtual consoles 1-8 and a second
> console with virtual consoles 9-15.
>
> I've assisted Jordan at MavRadio.org in setting this up at the UNO Radio
> Station (93.7 if your near the campus) So he could provide you with a
> config example if you're interested.
>
> > On 1/24/05, Dave Hull <dphull at insipid.com> wrote:
> >> Anyone running SLES 9 with xscreensaver on a dual head machine?
> >>
> >> If so, could you please forward a copy of your .xscreensaver file to me,
> >> or if
> >> you know how the folks at Suse made xscreensaver run two different
> >> screensavers
> >> (one on each head) simultaneously, it may not be in the .xscreensaver
> >> file,
> >> could you kindly inform me of what the secret is?
> >
> > Out of curiosity, did you try configuring for multiple simultaneous
> > console users?
> > This link makes it sound complicated, but i thought it was more
> > built-in to Linux and more a matter configuring your existing
> > operating system.
> >
> > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/
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