[Sussex] Dual Monitors

[Karl Manning]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for this, I was pretty well managing to get myself down that route
anyway. I already had a GE Force 7600GT card and had not realised that you
could convert the DVI to VGA, until I saw an adapter in the box! After that
everything worked out exactly as you said. No real interest in showing the
same thing on two monitors, although there did seem to be an option along
those lines, so hopefully I am all done.

Appreciate your help.

Regards,
Karl.


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From: Paul Tansom <paul at aptanet.com>
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Dual monitor Ubuntu
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** Karl Manning <karl.manning at silkwebs.co.uk> [2009-10-27 08:58]:
> Could anyone recommend please a fairly cheap dual VGA graphics card that
is
> compatible with Ubuntu Jaunty? I just need it for a demo.
** end quote [Karl Manning]

I'm running quite happily pretty standard nVidia cards, the one in this
machine
is a generic GeForce 6200, so nothing new or state of the art! I'm using the
nVidia driver installed by allowing Ubuntu to download the proprietary
driver.

To get it driving dual monitors you'll need a DVI to VGA converter so you
can
use one output for each monitor (i.e. check you have the VGA and DVI
connectors
on any more modern card!) - or not if you have DVI monitor I guess! Then I
simply enable TwinView in the NVIDIA X Server Settings. I'm driving a pair
of
ancient Iiyama Vision Master Pro 400 17" CRT screens at the moment, although
this will have to change when the slightly dodgy one finally gives up (it
goes
a bit yellow quite often).

I've just checked and I'm not entirely sure whether you can set the monitors
to
both display the same thing easily - if that's what you're after given you
mention that it is for a demo - nothing in the settings that seemed to
indicate
that as part of the driver anyway.

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