2009/11/3 Luke-Jennings <ubuntujenk...@googlemail.com>: > Hi, > > Sorry for the late reply but I have the 185 driver installed on my > laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 256MB graphics card. I use disper > as it is a quick means of changing screen outputs. > http://willem.engen.nl/projects/disper/ My dual screen set-up works > nicely. I did accidentally install the 173 driver but that didn't work > with my set-up. It is very good at auto detecting display resolution you > just have to run one command after login. > > Luke > > > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:28 +0000, tim.ritt...@doctors.org.uk wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Good to hear lots of people are having no problems with karmic. Unfortnately >> I've hit a big problem. I use two monitors as two separate X servers using a >> geforce GTS8600 graphics card. This was working well under jaunty, but only >> one screen is now supported under karmic. >> >> I've filed a bug and it looks like at least one other person has had >> problems with a similar card. I wonder if anyone else has struggled with >> this. >> >> I've switched to debian in the meantime, but having resolution issues there! >> >> How many people out there use dual monitors? Is the general poor support for >> dual monitors a conequence of the closed source nature of the graphics >> drivers? I would ideally like to use kde, but this doesn't support dual >> screens at all. >> >> Any comments? >> >> Regards, >> >> Tim >> >>
I probably should have mentioned I'm using the 190.43 drivers (with nvidia-settings-190) from a PPA. They seem to work quite well for me - I'll have to try disper though, sounds quite useful. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
