[ubuntu-uk] Dual monitors through 2 graphics cards

[Michael Wood]

Hi,

You can just add a second device screen and monitor section into your
xorg.conf and then in the server layout section you'll need to add
something like:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier "Default Layout"
        Screen      "Screen 1" LeftOf "Screen2"
        Screen      "Screen 2"
EndSection


See: "xinerama configuration" on google. You may or may not want
xinerama it's self enabled depending on if you want the screens to be
one large desktop or two seperate ones.

Michael


2009/2/4 Simon Wears <munkyjunky at googlemail.com>
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> Hidely-ho people!
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> Just swapped out my motherboard to support my new CPU, and this one has an onboard intel graphics chip on it, so I'm looking at reconfiguring my dual monitor setup. Currently, I have a 19" screen, and my 15" LCD tv as a second monitor for watching films on, running off a nVidia Geforce 6600LE. I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers as to how to set up my system so that the tv is connected to the intel chip, and my main monitor is running of the nVidia card? Google doesn't want to help me right now, but I'll continue looking. Someone mentioned something in IRC a while back about doing it, too.
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> I figure this kind of setup would let the nVidia have more oomph for when I'm gaming and watching a film at the same time, as the intel chip would do work for its monitor, and the nVidia for the games.
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