Xinerama Nvidia & RT

[simone-www.io-lab.org]

xrandr is the way to go, don t bother with the GUIs, terminal is all
you need then you can create a little script and a launcher for every
different setup.
Once it s setup no more need to change xorg.conf
Simone

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
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> Karoliina Salminen wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:23 AM, aYo Binitie <ayobinitie at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks, I'd nigh but given up on ever being able to use 2 monitors. I almost
>>> cannot wait to go to work and try this out now.
>>
>> Have you tried the nVidia installer from the nVidia site? Would it work better?
>> On certain versions of Ubuntu, the only way to make my laptop display
>> a picture in graphics mode has been to use the nVidia installer from
>> the nVidia site and then uninstalling everything Ubuntu provides by
>> default for the nVidia.
>> I have a working multiple monitor setup with the driver that comes
>> with the Ubuntu (laptop screen + 30 inch 2560x1600 display), but
>> haven't tried the studio kernel on this one. However, to make the VGA
>> output (the analog one) to display proper resolutions (other than
>> 640x480), with the nvidia-settings application, I have found that need
>> to use the nVidia driver from the nVidia site because the Ubuntu
>> supplied one is broken on that sense (and it is by the way very hard
>> to remove the Ubuntu supplied nVidia stuff (I used to have a blog
>> entry about that on my previous blog, but with the Hardy it no longer
>> works as the Ubuntu overrides the kernel module compiled by the nVidia
>> installer even if I have uninstalled all nvidia-related stuff from the
>> Ubuntu prior running the nVidia installer)).
>>
> I have switched between the Ubuntu driver and the one from nVidia's
> website with no issues.  Having said that, I have found that the binary
> drivers periodically behave oddly with RT kernels.  Sometimes it works,
> sometimes it doesn't.  Right now I am waiting for a new laptop that is
> Intel through and through (CPU, chipset, video, wifi etc.).  I am done
> with binary blob and or non-supported hardware (that means you nVidia,
> AMD, broadcomm et al.)
>
> If you have the choice and RT is important, then stick with the open
> source drivers.  If you absolutely *must* have some extra features, then
> buy hardware with proper drivers (right now that means Intel, though ATI
> is showing some positive signs and I may recommend them in the future).
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