I've played around with this a little, and it seems to me that there are a few different ways to do dual monitors:
- The nVidea driver has its own set of options and its own graphical configuration program (nvidea-settings) that's fairly nice. It's somewhat windows-y and allows changes without restarting X. I think it fools X about certain things. It will then offer to write your changes into xorg.conf, although I've never tried that. - You can use default dual screen configuration utilities in Gnome or KDE. I've never had them turn out a perfect xorg.conf for my setup, but they have given me broken xorg's that I've then been able to fix. - You can use Xinerama to give you one extended desktop. The proprietary nVidea driver has its own Twinview options that seem to do the same thing, but in an nVidea-specific way. - I've always come back to a preference for two completely separate screens that are hard-coded into my xorg.conf file, but if I had a laptop that moved around a lot, I might prefer something different. Scott On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:35:12PM -0500, Alexander Horn wrote: > Cool. Thanks for the feedback. I am inclined to just use a dual out > video card that comes with modern laptop machines (I'm still shopping > so I couldn't try it out myself yet). > > What are you using software-wise (I think it was Jason who > experimented around with some program to manage dual monitors ... i.e. > I saw this post [1] on nvidia-specific Xorg configuration but I know > Jason was doing something else). > > I am just curious on what the differences are between a pure Xorg > setup vs. some alternative solution. Pardon my ignorance on this; I > haven't had the hardware to play around with this to accurately > articulate what I mean. > > [1] http://www.ubuntugeek.com/dual-monitors-with-nvidia.html > > On 10/15/07, Justin Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, it takes a dual head graphics card, and then you just need to plug > > them both up. I know I had it working when I tried (and failed) a gentoo > > install, but I dont remember what you need to do on the software side (in > > linux, its pretty simple in win). > > > > > > On 10/15/07, Alexander Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I am thinking of getting a second monitor (for the first time ... I > > > never had one before). I remember seeing Dr. Bindner and Mr. Novinger > > > use two monitors at the same time. What is the suggested way of > > > hooking up two screens? > > > > > > -- > > > Alex > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with Subject: unsubscribe > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Alex > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
