[dundee] dual (multiple) monitor support

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:30:38 +0100, Digit (SG) wrote:

> on the taylug website, there's that picture with three monitors
> (didnt it used to be 4?)...

That picture was taken before I added a fourth...

> i have two, using a nvidia card (i think, lol), but so few distros
> come equiped with the appropriate controls and options to set it up
> correctly or detect two monitors...  any tips on where to go to get
> all (or any) of my distros working properly with dual monitor?

For pre RandR 1.2 try here
http://digital-domain.net/lug/multi-monitor/ otherwise look here 
http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html

xrandr --version will tell you which version your server supports.
Probably the easiest way to see what version your driver supports is
to just run xrandr and if you see just basically a list of modes and
not much else then it's likely 1.1. If you see a list of outputs like
VGA-0, DVI-0 etc then it's likely 1.2

I don't know what the current state of the nv or binary
nvidia drivers are.


Cheers,

Andrew