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Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Fri Mar 26 11:58:55 EDT 2010


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

Third option is to simply use xrandr to deal with your dual head, which 
is what I do with my current desktop, although it does not have an 
nvidia card.

xrandr --output DVI-0 --left-of VGA-0

Is in my .xinitrc file

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson


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