Re: which videcard for dual-monitor setup?

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:14 +0100, koffiejunkie wrote:
> Tinus Nijmeijers wrote:
> > I always thought the dvi and analog output were the same signal; how do
> > you get X to show something different on both screens?
>
> Well, by default it is, but if the driver tells it to do something else
> it would.
>
> I'm using two 19" 1280x1024 monitors with one big 2560x1024 desktop
> spread over both screens, hooked up to a Radeon 7000 with 32MB RAM.
>
> The xorg.conf stuff differs from card to card and driver to driver. The
> 7000 uses the opensource ati driver (Driver "radeon"). I know nvidia
> has their own system (I think it's called "twinview"?) and the ATI's
> fglrx driver has another way of doing things too.

I have an nvidia card here, and found a howto concerning twinview (http://www.ublug.org/ubuntu/twinview/twinview-howto-breezy.html). thanks for that one.

> If you have the same card (or a 7500 or 9x00) which will work with the
> same driver I'll share my xorg.conf and some tips.
>

I have another machine with a 9x00 (I think), I'd love to see your xorg.conf and some tips.

gr.
tinus

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