<p>I just slapped CEntOS 6 on a box with some agp radeon card having dvi and vga connectors. Dual display just worked. The only thing I had to do was tell it which screen was on the left.<br>
Yes. Nvidia must be confugured using the nvidia display manager tool shipping with the closed source driver.<br>
The neuvou [sic] driver was too unstable the last time I tried it in 2009. It's should be much better now in current Ubuntu and Fedora.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 31, 2011 10:13 AM, "Björn Gustafsson" <<a href="mailto:bg-ale@bjorng.net">bg-ale@bjorng.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> My single-display system at home makes me sad when I have to work from my<br>
> house, so I'm looking to create a dual-display setup on my Ubuntu box.<br>> Switching between virtual displays just isn't good enough for me. I'm just<br>> looking for more screen real estate, not gaming or other high frame-rate<br>
> applications, so performance isn't a big issue as long as I get the maximum<br>> resolution for my buck.<br>> <br>> I've been pricing monitors that can handle 1920x1080, but haven't done the<br>> math yet to see how much video memory that requires.<br>
> <br>> Pricewatch pointed me at two budget-minded dual-head DVI cards, and I was<br>> wondering if anyone had pointers on which might be preferable. At work I<br>> have an ATI Radeon dual-head setup on Ubuntu so I'm confident that works.<br>
> I've been reading that nVidia-based dual display configurations are more of<br>> a hassle to set up, so that may drive me in the other direction.<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.txmicro.com/1GB-DDR2-AGP-Dual-DVI-Video-Card-w-TV-Out-HDCP-p-5117.html">http://www.txmicro.com/1GB-DDR2-AGP-Dual-DVI-Video-Card-w-TV-Out-HDCP-p-5117.html</a><br>
> <br>> <a href="http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=01GP31526KR&vid=603&src=PW">http://www.compsource.com/ttechnote.asp?part_no=01GP31526KR&vid=603&src=PW</a><br>> <br>> Any advice would be appreciated.<br>
> <br>> Thanks,<br>> Björn<br></div>