Setting up a second monitor

[Jean Hollis Weber]

James Gray wrote:
>>>What is the monitor you're trying to plug in (Brand/Model)?
>>
>>Samtron 76E. It's a CRT.
> 
> OK - so one of these? http://www.samtron.com/PRODUCT/76e_fea.html

Looks like it.

> Seems that if you enable Xinerama, you'll loose DRI (accelerated 3D) - if DRI 
> is important to you, don't enable Xinerama. 

Hmmm... I have no idea of I even use DRI. Sounds like either a 
games thing, or a CAD thing, neither of which I use. But could be 
I use it without knowing.

> Cool.  Have a look at those URL's and see if you can adapt one of the configs 
> to your setup.  It's not too hard to match option-for-option in the config 
> file.  Anything after a "#" in the config file is a comment so not used by 
> the server.

Okay. I may not get to this until tomorrow. Here it is after noon 
already and I haven't done any real work yet today. :-)

> REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOUR WORKING CONFIG FIRST!

Heh. You betcha!

Thank you for all your help. I really appreciate it.

Cheers, Jean