Hi again,
Re nVidia's Twinview vs Xinerama - it's my understanding that they
attempt to implement the same functionality, and shouldn't be used
together. My decision-making was based on the simplistic statement that
Twinview is nVidia specific and possibly faster, whereas Xinerama does
cooler things but might be somewhat slower. If this is true, for basic
cloning with an nVidia card, Twinview is the better way to go.
Anyone else have this idea?
FYI, though you might have seen this forum already:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
cheers,
Mary Cudmore.
Phill O'Flynn wrote:
Michael
I have done a fair bit of mucking around with this sort of thing. I
spent weeks getting three monitors to work so I know how VERY
frustring it is. It was a few years ago when mandrake was popular. I
found of all the distros it came the closest to setting this up...
though it needed tweaking
Perhaps you have already done this but i found that the monitors had
to be configured to generic types not plug'n'play in the config file
(in the monitor section) . The graphics cards should be ok. Also be
careful about what else you have setup. for example I'm told xrandr
and the Nvidia twinview are incompatible and do not work together.
Also just make sure that if xinerama is enabled that it doesn't
conflict with twin view
HTH
Regards
Phill O'Flynn
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] I so hate X windows...
From: "Terry Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, May 5, 2006 4:51 am
To: "SLUG email list" <slug@slug.org.au>
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Michael Fox wrote:
> Umm I am fully aware of that, but twinview has something called meta
> modes.. basically you tell it what res the 2nd screen is at, thus
> 800x600 or 640x480. Which my TV can do.
Michael,
If it's any consolation you're not alone in experiencing difficulty with
this. I've been mucking around with exactly this sort of problem trying
to do an external LCD monitor from two different types of laptops with
two different chipsets .. one nVidia and one ATI Radeon .. with similar
sorts of results. Very frustrating.
Still, I've seen enough reports of success to believe it can be made to
work, so I'm battling on. If I find out anything helpful I'll let you
know.
regards
Terry
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