[YLUG] Dual xorg.conf

[Phillip Jordan]

On 16/11/06, Stuart Priest <sap1 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> If you set your default runlevel to 3 rather than 5 (edit /etc/inittab
> and change the line that looks like "id:5:initdefault:" to
> "id:3:initdefault:") then everytime you boot you will enter text mode.
> Login, and then create two versions of the xorg.conf file, then create
> two aliases in your login startup files, "start_first" and
> "start_second".  The aliases should simply copy the appropriate
> xorg.conf file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then run "startx" which will
> start your X11 windows.  Hope that's clear.

Working with two xorg.conf files sounds like a good plan, but what does

lspci

output? Is it dependant on the switch? (i.e. does switching actually
disconnect them from the PCI[e] bus - I suspect so, but you never
know)

If it's different, you could use that to your advantage with some
fairly simple scripting: use grep to find out which card is active and
use the result of that to copy in the correct xorg.conf (or start X
with the appropriate conf by specifying it explicitly on the X
server's command line)

phil