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Pretty impressive since it's already hard to have dual screens working well on Ubuntu. Nice job!
by daok 17y ago
Pretty impressive since it's already hard to have dual screens working well on Ubuntu. Nice job!
- jacquesm 17y agoWhy is that hard? I have something quite close to that here and was actually surprised how easy it was to get it running, including CUDA support and 3D acceleration.
- shabda 17y agoI have as basic a setup as a dual monitor can be. A laptop connected to a second display, http://uswaretech.com/dump/screenshots/screenshot_018.png http://uswaretech.com/dump/screenshots/screenshot_018.png With this Ubuntu will, 1. Get the initial display order wrong 50% of the time, (The monitor which was on the left will be on right on next startup.) 2. Wont get the the larger monitor to display in its full area, if I plug the second monitor and enable it to already running laptop, some part of display area will be blank. Admittedly, both of these are possibly fixable via modifying xorg.conf, but if I boot to windows, it gets it right, every time, without any modifications. :(
- jacquesm 17y agoMan that's frustrating. I'm in the same boat as the other poster in this subthread, nvidia all the way and that may be why it works so well. You may want to specify your PCI devices in the xorg.conf instead of leaving it to auto detection, that is one way to lock things down.
- justin_vanw 17y agoThe reason you are having problems is that the first monitor is selected by the bios at boot time. If there is no monitor attached, it has to make the 'first' monitor the one on the laptop. If the laptop lid is closed, it may pick the external as the first monitor. Generally the easiest way to get this done is to have nvidia graphics and use nvidia-settings. If you have some less well supported graphics setup, welcome to the world of linux!
- kaens 17y agoThe last time I tried it, it was really difficult to do with separate video cards, but not hard at all with one video card with two outs. Granted, I'm fairly certain that the difficulties had more to do with X.org than with Ubuntu, per se.
- stuff4ben 17y agoNot really. I added a cheap $29 nVidia 8400GS PCI card to my aging P4 3Ghz setup a couple months ago and it runs my 22" and 17" monitors with ease in Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04). I think if you stick with nVidia graphics cards it makes it a lot easier. All I had to do was install the drivers and run the nVidia X Server Settings applet.
- shimon 17y agoJust as a quick counterpoint, I'm using an ATI card for dual monitors on my desktop, and have an nvidia card in my laptop. I find Ubuntu's monitor settings app easier to use than nvidia-settings (though both get the job done) and the ATI drivers more stable. The ubuntu configuration app has evolved significantly in the past two years; connecting multiple monitors on ubuntu is now about as easy as doing the same on Windows.
- daok 17y agoI have to admit that I have a single ATI 4850 and it was a real pain. Once it was setup and working, I than had some black screen and losing all possibilities to change anything because the console was to the black screen.... anyways it wasn't that simple because on some other OS you simply need to go in the Screen configuration and that's it. In Ubuntu the Screen configuration had only 1 of my 2 screens. So... I guess it's not up to the simplest it can be.
- ori_b 17y agoReally? For me, "plug it in and select the position in the display properties dialog" was all I needed to do.