Using 2 monitors?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 01:50:41PM +0200, Knapp wrote:
> I have a 7600 gs Nvidia card and am looking at a new  "Gigabyte Silent-Cell
> 5750" ATI card. If I have these 2 cards and 2 monitors, can I then run both
> monitors at the same time?

Maybe.  AFAIK multi-card has issues with current X.org.

A single card with two outputs (VGA + DVI or DVI + DVI) should work
just fine.

> Is it hard to do?

The single-card-two-monitors thing is easy, most of the time: plug in
the monitors, go to System -> Preferences -> Monitors and drag them
around the way you like.

There may be complications:

  * NVidia: if you use their proprietary driver, you must use their
    proprietary configuration application for stuff like this.  IIRC;
    I've avoided NVidia lately.

  * ATI 57xx series aren't supported at all by open drivers in Ubuntu
    10.04; you must either use VESA (which has no 3D acceleration and no
    multi-monitor support) or the ATI proprietary driver fglrx (but I
    don't know if it's supported at all with 10.04, or if it supports
    multiple monitors).

Marius Gedminas
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