Dual monitor possible?

[Liam Proven]

On 03/10/2007, Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> Somebody gave me a Nvidia 3D fuzion graphics cards [...]
> Please remember that I am completely new and
> beginning to learn.

It's perfectly possible - I'm running two 19" monitors off a single
(fairly old) nVidia card under Ubuntu on the PC I'm writing this email
on right now.

However, at the moment, it's non-trivial to do and it involves editing
config files and so on. As a beginner, I would have to recommend you
avoid this.

In theory, the next version of Ubuntu, 7.10, due out in just a few
weeks, should make this much easier. I suggest you wait until then.

For what it's worth, this is something Ubuntu is bad at. I've done
dual-head successfully under both SuSE and Xandros Linux in the past
with just a couple of mouse clicks.


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