[Sussex] Multiple screens using USB to VGA converters

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Mon Mar 10 15:31:44 UTC 2008


Brendan

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 15:07 +0000, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> Whilst developing software, it would be useful to be able to connect a
> second monitor to a Linux (Fedora) system. I see that there are various
> USB to VGA adapters available. Has anyone any experience of using this
> type of adapter and is it straightforward to configure such devices.

USB adaptor now, multi-screen yes.

The multi-headed X server is well documented out on the web, but I guess
that's not the problem bit - it's getting drivers for the USB adaptor.

Steve

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