[Cialug] Can a dual-headed graphics card appear as 2 virtual consoles?

[David Champion]

Here's some starter info on running multiple X sessions. It doesn't 
cover binding the different monitors though. Let us know if you get this 
working.

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/multiple-x.html

-dc

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> I recently acquired a second monitor for my machine (running Debian), 
> that i'll refer to as A and B. Both monitors are plugged into the same 
> graphics card, and getting them to act as one wide desktop was quite 
> easy. However, i'd rather they act as 2 separate virtual consoles. 
> Right now the machine effectively has 7 virtual consoles. 1-6 are 
> text-mode only and only display on monitor A. 7 is X Windows and spans 
> both A and B. Is it possible to make 1-7 appear on A, and have a 
> separate X session on B as console 8?
>
> So then if i hit ctrl-alt-F7 the keyboard/mouse will control X running 
> on monitor A, and when i hit ctrl-alt-F8 the keyboard/mouse will switch 
> to be controlling a separate X session on monitor B.
>
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