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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Getting a separate DISPLAY for each screen connected
From:       Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith () oracle ! com>
Date:       2017-08-12 16:34:27
Message-ID: fb4f97cc-3f83-2dc4-6e13-154b33ea98b3 () oracle ! com
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On 08/12/17 12:43 AM, Tor Rune Skoglund wrote:
> 
> Btw, I seem to remember back from my university days in the 90-ties that the 
> workstations at the uni by default did what we actually want back then, i.e. 
> dual monitor workstations came up with DISPLAYs :0.0 and :0.1. But that's a long 
> time ago!  :-)

Yes, and back then generally each monitor had it's own graphics controller,
one per graphics card, unlike today where a single chip is controlling
multiple outputs/monitors.

Xorg (when run without any desktop environment or similar controller that
provides its own configuration) still defaults to independent DISPLAYs
per graphics device - but that doesn't help when you want to split the
heads on a single multi-head device.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-               alan.coopersmith@oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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