[nflug] dual monitors

[Dennis Ruzeski]

All Nvidia cards (and most ati cards) have dual ramdacs and can run dual
headed with the nvidia xorg driver. I'm running at work with a MX-440 card
and at home with a Quattro 920 card and it's mighty cool.

Once you have the card and driver installed, you can either use 'twinview'
to create one large screen on across 2 monitors or 2 separate screen
sections on 2 monitors- The advantage to using 2 screen sections is that you
can have different resolutions on each monitor.

The driver documentation outlines the xorg.conf changes for either method.


As far as using 2 separate video cards, I don't think it'll work- The bios
on the cards will conflict with each other.

--Dennis







On 12/14/05, Mike Richardson <mtr3 at buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
> Eric Benoit wrote:
> > This is prolly a simple one.
> >
> > Does anyone know if I can install two video cards and then attach two
> > monitors and use sometime of software to create one large desktop?
> > ...for linux
>
> I haven't tried this, so YMMV.
>
> A quick google search for "dual monitor +xorg.conf" came up with this
> sample config which seems to be sane:
>
> http://wiki.osuosl.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7041
>
> the Xinerama extension will give you the extended virtual desktop:
> otherwise, the two monitors will be seperate displays...
>
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