Xinerama Nvidia & RT

[Gustin Johnson]

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Karoliina Salminen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:23 AM, aYo Binitie <ayobinitie at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, I'd nigh but given up on ever being able to use 2 monitors. I almost
>> cannot wait to go to work and try this out now.
> 
> Have you tried the nVidia installer from the nVidia site? Would it work better?
> On certain versions of Ubuntu, the only way to make my laptop display
> a picture in graphics mode has been to use the nVidia installer from
> the nVidia site and then uninstalling everything Ubuntu provides by
> default for the nVidia.
> I have a working multiple monitor setup with the driver that comes
> with the Ubuntu (laptop screen + 30 inch 2560x1600 display), but
> haven't tried the studio kernel on this one. However, to make the VGA
> output (the analog one) to display proper resolutions (other than
> 640x480), with the nvidia-settings application, I have found that need
> to use the nVidia driver from the nVidia site because the Ubuntu
> supplied one is broken on that sense (and it is by the way very hard
> to remove the Ubuntu supplied nVidia stuff (I used to have a blog
> entry about that on my previous blog, but with the Hardy it no longer
> works as the Ubuntu overrides the kernel module compiled by the nVidia
> installer even if I have uninstalled all nvidia-related stuff from the
> Ubuntu prior running the nVidia installer)).
> 
I have switched between the Ubuntu driver and the one from nVidia's
website with no issues.  Having said that, I have found that the binary
drivers periodically behave oddly with RT kernels.  Sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesn't.  Right now I am waiting for a new laptop that is
Intel through and through (CPU, chipset, video, wifi etc.).  I am done
with binary blob and or non-supported hardware (that means you nVidia,
AMD, broadcomm et al.)

If you have the choice and RT is important, then stick with the open
source drivers.  If you absolutely *must* have some extra features, then
buy hardware with proper drivers (right now that means Intel, though ATI
is showing some positive signs and I may recommend them in the future).
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