[ale] Dual head setup with nvidia (was: no subject)

[William Fragakis]

See how easy that was?

Seriously, you can teach either with grace or venom. Which you choose
speaks volumes.

Regards
William

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 09:55 -0400, Brandon Checketts wrote:
> I missed and have deleted the original post, so this may be completely
> irrelevant, but I spent several hours trying to get dual monitors working with
> an nVidia card on Ubuntu 9.10 and learned a lot.  My conclusion was that
> basically have two "drivers" that allow you to run two monitors: TwinView or
> Xinerama
> 
> TwinView is the nVidia implimentation.  It essentially runs two separate
> desktops and allows your mouse to move between them.  Each desktop has its own
> toolbar. Since the desktops are separate, you can't drag a window from one to
> the other.  Compiz desktop effects works with this.
> 
> Xinerama is the open source implementation.   It creates one big desktop so you
> can drag windows between screens, and you only have a toolbar on just one
> screen.  However nvidia+xinerama+compiz doesn't work, so you can't enable the
> cool effects.
> 
> Hope that is helpful (and correct)
> 
> Thanks,
> Brandon Checketts
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Faulkner wrote:
> > Trying to get dual-monitors running...that would make sense.  My 6800
> > GS's are dual-head.  Perhaps I should try swapping-out the GPU's for a
> > single-head PCI card to see what happens.  (Another project for the
> > weekend).
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 00:11 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> >> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:04:58 -0400
> >> Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 03/25/2010 11:34 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> >>>> Yeah...I could do that but that's not really the point.  I'm
> >>>> ditching the Windows world for Linux and am starting at home.  I'm
> >>>> getting ready to start Linux certs and recant from my MCSE way of
> >>>> life.  
> >>>>
> >>>> At one time I had tried hacking the randr entries but all that did
> >>>> was get 1680x1050 listed in the drop-down for resolution selections
> >>>> but was not recognized as a valid resolution on selection.  Very
> >>>> curious...
> >>>>
> >>>> Since I've gotten over that hump and found that a simple config file
> >>>> will do the trick I'm looking elsewhere as the culprit that's
> >>>> causing this video failure.  NV indicates it as an X issue and in
> >>>> looking at the boot sequence I'm driven to suspect it as an X issue
> >>>> as well.  But then again I am a noob to Ubuntu as having been away
> >>>> from Unix/Linux for 10-years on any consistent basis.  Getting
> >>>> ready to start on certs for Linux and turn from the "darkside".
> >>> My thought is that if you use the proprietary, binary-only nvidia
> >>> driver you're throwing away all the work you did getting a working
> >>> xorg.conf with the free, open source nv driver.
> >>>
> >>> Whatever it is that you want to do with the nvidia graphics tools,
> >>> perhaps there is another way of doing it that does not depend on
> >>> proprietary software.
> >>>
> >>> It might also be worth booting the Ubuntu 10.04 beta live cd, which
> >>> replaces the nv driver with the noveau driver, to see how well it
> >>> works.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1
> >>>
> >> IIRC the OP is trying to get dual monitors working.  
> >>
> > 
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