[Cialug] Can a dual-headed graphics card appear as 2 virtual consoles?

[David Champion]

And another link on doing a multi-seat X thingy...

http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html

-dc

David Champion wrote:
> Here's some starter info on running multiple X sessions. It doesn't 
> cover binding the different monitors though. Let us know if you get 
> this working.
>
> http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/multiple-x.html
>
> -dc
>
> Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>> I recently acquired a second monitor for my machine (running Debian), 
>> that i'll refer to as A and B. Both monitors are plugged into the 
>> same graphics card, and getting them to act as one wide desktop was 
>> quite easy. However, i'd rather they act as 2 separate virtual 
>> consoles. Right now the machine effectively has 7 virtual consoles. 
>> 1-6 are text-mode only and only display on monitor A. 7 is X Windows 
>> and spans both A and B. Is it possible to make 1-7 appear on A, and 
>> have a separate X session on B as console 8?
>>
>> So then if i hit ctrl-alt-F7 the keyboard/mouse will control X 
>> running on monitor A, and when i hit ctrl-alt-F8 the keyboard/mouse 
>> will switch to be controlling a separate X session on monitor B.
>>
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