Then, create two Screen sections, each using one of the Device sections: # Edit the BusID with the location of your graphics card The graphics card to be shared, each listing the driver as 'nvidia', To configure two separate X screens to share one graphics chip, here isįirst, create two separate Device sections, each listing the BusID of The 1-to-1 association of display devices to X screens is more historically in line with X. Hardware that can only be used on one display at a time (eg: video overlays, hardware accelerated RGB overlays), and which consequently cannot be used at all when in TwinView, can be exposed on the first X screen when each display is a separate X screen.

If each display device is a separate X screen, then properties that may vary between X screens may vary between displays (eg: depth, root window size, etc).

While there are several disadvantages to this approach as compared to TwinView (eg: windows cannot be dragged between X screens, hardware accelerated OpenGL cannot span the two X screens), it does offer several advantages over TwinView: Graphics chips that support TwinView (see the article titled 'Linux - Configuring Twinview') can also be configured to treat each connected display device as a separate X screen.

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