Re: Dual display on Blade 2000

From: Jeffery Small (jeff_at_cjsa.com)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:26:46 GMT

stali <stali@purdue.edu> writes:

>Is it possible to use two monitors on a Sun Blade 2000 (dual procs)
>running two 'separate' CDE/Gnome sessions.

Yes. I have a SunFire V250 with two XVR-100 frame buffers and two Planar
20" flat panel monitors running two separate gnome 2.0 desktop sessions.
One way to start the dual desktop session is to modify the entry in the
/etc/dt/config/Xservers file. Here is my entry:

:0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun -nobanner \
    -dev /dev/fbs/pfb1 defdepth 24 -dev /dev/fbs/pfb0 left defdepth 24

It may be possible to run two monitors off the digital and analog ports of
a single XVR-100 card, but if I recall correctly, this has some display
limitations and performance ramifications.

I would like to use a more recent version of gnome, but up through version
2.8.0 there has been some serious problems starting and using the desktop
on the 2nd screen. I don't know why version 2.0 as shipped with Solaris 9,
works. It may be that the Sun engineers fixed some bugs before including
it in the OS.

Regards, 

-- 
Jeff

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