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Re: [PLUG] dual monitors with ubuntu
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Ah, excellent.
I used a NVidia card a number of years ago and every time the kernel
upgraded... bang! X was broken and I'd have to download the kernel
sources and recompile. PITA. I'm glad to see that there is a solution
to update it with the kernel.
My current Diamond Stealth Radeon card (built by Diamond Multi-Media -
uses ATI Radeon chip) is "non-standard" as far as the ATI drivers are
concerned :-( It seems to work okay with the default drivers in Ubuntu
8.10 so I have dual monitors (The desktop is about 39 inches diagonal,
about 37 inches across and about 12 inches high... WOO HOO!!) I'd like
to upgrade to a better supported card (usable 3-D and acceleration with
dual monitors) so thanks for the info!
Thanks,
Eric
Gordon Dexter wrote:
> I have dual-screen working under Kubuntu 8.04. The trick is to use an
> NVidia card. That's basically the hardest part. Install their binary
> blob driver (there are distro-specific ways to do this so it is
> updated with the kernel) and then once you get that working just run
> their little "nvidia-settings" utility and it has an option for it
> called TwinView.
>
> I wouldn't normally recommend getting new hardware to accomplish
> something that should be possible with your current hardware, but
> since you indicated you were already looking I figured I'd steer you
> in the right direction.
>
> --Gordon
>
> Jason Harlow wrote:
>> It can take a bit of tweaking of the Xorg.conf file...here's a good
>> forum post on doing it with the ATI drivers (I've only ever used the
>> NVidia ones...but it's similar):
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=158686
>>
>> Can you get a single screen working with the fglrx driver? That would
>> be a good start. You'd then just need to add a second "Device" and
>> "Screen" and have it extend over to that.
>>
>> i.e.:
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "Device0"
>> Driver "fglrx"
>> Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal"
>> Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "1"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> Identifier "Device1"
>> Driver "fglrx"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Screen0"
>> Device "Device0"
>> Monitor "Monitor0"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Screen1"
>> Device "Device1"
>> Monitor "Monitor1"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> EndSection
>>
>> Just be sure and back up any working Xorg.conf files before messing
>> around and remember ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X and ctrl-alt-F1 to
>> get to a terminal (To replace w/a working /etc/X11/Xorg.conf)
>>
>>
>> If you still have trouble, posting your Xorg.conf file (or at least
>> the relevant sections) would help debug.
>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Eric <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
>>
>>> This Christmas Santa Claus (disguised as my sister) delivered to me the
>>> second widescreen monitor that I'd been wanting.
>>> Background: the system has both on-board video (ASUS integrated VIA
>>> DeltaChrome GPU) and an added PCI-e 1X video card (Diamond Radeon
>>> X600/X550 series).
>>> The Diamond card uses the ATI Radeon chip(s) so I run the fglrx video
>>> driver to take advantage of the acceleration in the card.
>>>
>>> The dual monitors are working with Ubuntu 8.10 (both attached to the
>>> Diamond card) but, alas, without the fglrx driver.
>>>
>>> How do I get the panel to span both screens? There appears to be no
>>> setting for that under System->Preferences->Screen Resolution :-(
>>>
>>> Also, this video card is "okay" but I'd like a better one that would
>>> support dual monitors AND 3-D/acceleration. Any recommendations? I'd
>>> like to not have to spend more than $100 but that's somewhat flexible
>>> for the right solution :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> --
>>> # Eric Lucas
>>> #
>>> # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
>>> # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
>>> # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr
>>>
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# Eric Lucas
#
# "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
# -- John Gillespie Magee Jr
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