Two graphics cards and three monitors - how to?

[Alan Pope]

On 16 October 2011 10:29, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Yes, done all that, the problem seems to be in persuading it to use
> both graphics controllers at the same time.
>

Start two x servers, one on one card, one on the other. This is
usually how it's done if you have two separate cards of different
manufacturer.

> He uses two of them at the computer and the third is the TV (not
> physically by the computer), used for viewing TV online, which seems
> to be the way he does a lot of TV viewing now.

So the two are plugged into the nvidia and the telly is on the ATI?

If so then nVidia standard twinview should be fine for the two
computer monitors and a separate X server for the telly using the ATI
driver.

Al.