Dual Monitors

[Chris Jones]

Hi

On Wed, November 24, 2004 4:46, Lennart Andersen said:
> I am running ubuntu amd64 and I would like to enable dual monitors, has
> anyone tried to this?

Yes, I run a dualhead setup at home on an amd64 box. I'm using an nvidia
Geforce 5900XT which has two outputs. This works *really* well because
you're only using one card and the nvidia driver hides the fact that its a
dualhead display from X, so you don't have the typical xinerama problems
of GL/video only working properly on the main head, or not at all.
Everything is seamless,  I can play video/games on either monitor with no
performance loss :D

The only downside is that hoary's GNOME seems to have some problems with
multiple heads right now, normally you get a panel on one monitor, but
it's taken to crossing both, which isn't as good as it sounds ;)

Let me know if you need some help configuring dualhead on an nvidia card
(I'm not so sure how it works if you have more than one card because I am
doing it all with nvidia driver options).

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Jones
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