[nflug] Multiple Monitors

[JJ Neff]

I had to pipe in here, I also use the Twinview feature of the nvidia driver
working -- love it.

The ability to control how the dual monitors work should be a fnx of your ATIA
driver.  Twinview is part of the Nvidia linux driver.

Good luck.

--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> <When I try to use it (Option "Xinerama" "true") everything
> appears to go off ok, but my desktops are just mirrored. The mouse and
> windows move the same in each (not from one to the next) as if I had
> done no monitor configuration at all.
> 
> Is Xinerama what I want to do? I'm not really sure. I need someone to
> say "Yes Josh, you need Xinerama working" or "No Josh, you are barking
> up the wrong tree, look into flibbityflabbityfloo">
> 
> I believe Xinerama is pretty depreciated though I could be wrong, I 
> remember it was needed for some stuff but I have never seen the need. 
> Probably because I always work with NVIDIA stuff and with NVIDIA, 
> TwinView does all that I need. Options within TwinView can be "Clone", 
> "RightOf", "LeftOf", etc.. These refer to how the second monitor is 
> handled, being self explanatory. Xinerama may have options like that and 
> they are probably specific to your driver for your video card. I won't 
> go into detail about the NVIDIA TwinView because you have an ATI card. 
> The fact you have such stuff working with ATI is pretty good to begin 
> with ;). Check the docs on your driver to see what the options are for 
> dual outputs or you could save alot of grief by just getting an NVIDIA 
> card, you can pick them up cheap enough and you'll love the performance 
> too. I'm kinda biased to NVIDIA (can't ya tell?), I like their support 
> for Linux, all inclusive drivers, and for about $25 you can have some 
> amazing video.
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