Dual monitors

[Darcy Casselman]

I'm running 10.10 with dual monitors on my laptop right now.  Intel
graphics.  No problems.

My desktop typically has three monitors over two nVidia cards.
Spanning the two cards breaks compiz effects for some reason, and it
was a bit tricky to set up, but otherwise no problems.  Two monitors
doesn't have those problems.

Intel graphics means xrandr works fine (you can use System >
Preference > Monitors to control them).  For nVidia, I needed to use
nvidia-settings and set it to Xinerama.

Bill, the hardware requirements are generally a supported graphics
card with two monitor outputs.  Are you using a desktop or laptop?
Are you looking for advice upgrading your graphics card?

Darcy.

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Che Guebeara <cheguebeara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 17:17:50 -0800 (PST)
> William Frick <wfrick at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> Does any one have experience with the hardware requirements to have
>> two displays on a 10.10 system ?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
> If you are using Gnome on 10.10 you will have a devil of a time because
> in 10.10 Gnome support for duals was dropped for some reason (trying to
> remember the reference for that - probably Ubuntu forums). For my dual
> installation on 10.10 I had to load KDE which handles dual out of the
> box.
>
> I am not sure whether this situation will improve in 11.04 when we can
> use Unity vs. Gnome or if support in Gnome will be reintroduced.
>
> Mark
>
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