Re: [ubuntu-uk] setting up dual screen with a dual head graphics card
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 20:34 +, Adam Bagnall wrote: Farran wrote: Hi all, especially Rob cos I saw he mentioned this... how do I get my nVidia GT8600 to do dual screen? There's a DVI port and a VGA port, but only one of them will give an image at a time when two monitors are plugged in - the DVI. Why is this? The screen setup doesn't detect the second screen. As far as I know, i have not installed twinview or anything else manually: don't know if it comes pre-installed... Thanks in advance if anyone can help :D === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :-P I recently set up dual head on Ubuntu for a friend using an nvidia card, I can't remember the exact details but I'll see if I can help. 1. run gksudo nvidia-settings either from a terminal or by pressing alt+F2. 2. Go to the x server display configuration section and click the detect displays button Here's where I can't remember exactly because I don't have dual displays but: 3. Set display mode to twinview 4. Tick the enable xinerama checkbox 5. Click the save to x configuration file button and merge changes when prompted. 6. Restart your Xserver and hope. (If you've got nothing important open then just hit ctrl+alt+backspace) 7. ??? 8. Profit! Regards, Adam. ok, thanks, that looks good. have found the control panel and the detect displays, but i never did it with both screens in. the next step for the programmery people is to integrate that into the screens and graphics window. I had to hunt for the nvidia panel, and that was only because i knew there should've been one... I'll try it soon :D attachment: smiley-1.png-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] setting up dual screen with a dual head graphics card
Farran wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 20:34 +, Adam Bagnall wrote: Farran wrote: Hi all, especially Rob cos I saw he mentioned this... how do I get my nVidia GT8600 to do dual screen? There's a DVI port and a VGA port, but only one of them will give an image at a time when two monitors are plugged in - the DVI. Why is this? The screen setup doesn't detect the second screen. As far as I know, i have not installed twinview or anything else manually: don't know if it comes pre-installed... Thanks in advance if anyone can help :D === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :-P I recently set up dual head on Ubuntu for a friend using an nvidia card, I can't remember the exact details but I'll see if I can help. 1. run gksudo nvidia-settings either from a terminal or by pressing alt+F2. 2. Go to the x server display configuration section and click the detect displays button Here's where I can't remember exactly because I don't have dual displays but: 3. Set display mode to twinview 4. Tick the enable xinerama checkbox 5. Click the save to x configuration file button and merge changes when prompted. 6. Restart your Xserver and hope. (If you've got nothing important open then just hit ctrl+alt+backspace) 7. ??? 8. Profit! Regards, Adam. ok, thanks, that looks good. have found the control panel and the detect displays, but i never did it with both screens in. the next step for the programmery people is to integrate that into the screens and graphics window. I had to hunt for the nvidia panel, and that was only because i knew there should've been one... I'll try it soon :D I've given up on ATI for the day and tried an NVidia Geforce 7200GS 256MB card (20 quid from SVP.co.uk). Works a treat in Twinview with independent screen resolutions on my monitor and TV. The only issue I've found is that I get a very slight flicker (it's like a horizontal line where the image is being drawn) in fact action videos. Not sure if it's the card or the CPU not up to the job. Still seems to work. I did find I had to run nvidia-settings from a terminal window as there wasn't an icon for it by default. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] setting up dual screen with a dual head graphics card
Hi all, especially Rob cos I saw he mentioned this... how do I get my nVidia GT8600 to do dual screen? There's a DVI port and a VGA port, but only one of them will give an image at a time when two monitors are plugged in - the DVI. Why is this? The screen setup doesn't detect the second screen. As far as I know, i have not installed twinview or anything else manually: don't know if it comes pre-installed... Thanks in advance if anyone can help :D === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :-P attachment: smiley-10.pngattachment: smiley-1.png-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] setting up dual screen with a dual head graphics card
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 19:43 +, Farran wrote: Hi all, especially Rob cos I saw he mentioned this... how do I get my nVidia GT8600 to do dual screen? There's a DVI port and a VGA port, but only one of them will give an image at a time when two monitors are plugged in - the DVI. Why is this? The screen setup doesn't detect the second screen. As far as I know, i have not installed twinview or anything else manually: don't know if it comes pre-installed... Thanks in advance if anyone can help :D Well I've only managed to get dual screens working with an ATI card (which isn't what I want in the long term but it works for now) and I can only get the same resolution over both screens (1280x768), but for starters I'd have a look under System - Administration - Screens Graphics. From here you should be able to configure the second screen assuming that it's detected okay (on my PC it detects two Screen 1s and I can use either of them but not both at the same time). I think the idea is you can select Screen 2 to extend the desktop so it's right, left, above or below Screen 1, or you could make Screen 2 the default Screen and have Screen 1 beside it. I can't get this working properly with Gusty and I've also tried the 8.04 Alpha 5 and this doesn't even detect the cards (not a good start). If this doesn't work then you might want to look at using the NVidia proprietary drivers which I believe has it's own NVidia control panel for configuring such things as dual screens (does anyone know if there is an equivalent for ATI using fglrx or the ATI drivers?). Hopefully this should give you something to go on. I think I'm going to leave my configuration as it is until the weekend when I'll have more time to play. Good luck with it. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] setting up dual screen with a dual head graphics card
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 19:43 +, Farran wrote: Hi all, especially Rob cos I saw he mentioned this... how do I get my nVidia GT8600 to do dual screen? There's a DVI port and a VGA port, but only one of them will give an image at a time when two monitors are plugged in - the DVI. Why is this? The screen setup doesn't detect the second screen. As far as I know, i have not installed twinview or anything else manually: don't know if it comes pre-installed... Thanks in advance if anyone can help :D === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :-P - This email has been scanned by the MxScan Email Security System. - You need to run nvidia-settings from the console. you can configure everything from there. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] setting up dual screen with a dual head graphics card
Farran wrote: Hi all, especially Rob cos I saw he mentioned this... how do I get my nVidia GT8600 to do dual screen? There's a DVI port and a VGA port, but only one of them will give an image at a time when two monitors are plugged in - the DVI. Why is this? The screen setup doesn't detect the second screen. As far as I know, i have not installed twinview or anything else manually: don't know if it comes pre-installed... Thanks in advance if anyone can help :D === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :-P I recently set up dual head on Ubuntu for a friend using an nvidia card, I can't remember the exact details but I'll see if I can help. 1. run gksudo nvidia-settings either from a terminal or by pressing alt+F2. 2. Go to the x server display configuration section and click the detect displays button Here's where I can't remember exactly because I don't have dual displays but: 3. Set display mode to twinview 4. Tick the enable xinerama checkbox 5. Click the save to x configuration file button and merge changes when prompted. 6. Restart your Xserver and hope. (If you've got nothing important open then just hit ctrl+alt+backspace) 7. ??? 8. Profit! Regards, Adam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
