[Sussex] Dual monitor Ubuntu

[Paul Tansom]

** 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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