Nvidia Multihead + X

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto fabbione at canonical.com
Tue Nov 2 07:49:23 UTC 2004


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Matt Patterson wrote:
| I noticed in your XF86Config-4 that you are using the nvidia driver, not
| the nv driver. I have had to toss my ubuntu install completely because
| using the nvidia driver with my system (nvidia-glx driver) causes
| regular freezes. Is there a ways to enable the multiple displays and
| have them driven using the nv driver which seems to work wonderfully. I
| would really like the second display to be the tv, this might complicate
| things somewhat.
|
| Thanks,
| Matt
|

I actually never managed to make the nv driver working with dual head,
but to be completely hounest i didn't try hard.
Also take into account that the nv driver is still shipped by nvidia
guys, so i am not sure if this is a known limitation to push the binary
one or just a bug.

Fabio

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