[ale] Dual-headed displays and X.org...

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 16:28 -0500, Dow_Hurst wrote:

> Michael,
> Twinview is strictly an nvidia option.  I wasn't aware that intel graphics would do OpenGL acceleration natively.  Don't you have to use Mesa for software based OpenGL when you have an intel graphics chipset?
> Dow


Nope?at least, not to my knowledge.  This display runs faster than any
other thing that I have had, save for my old nVidia card.  It is
definitely not software doing the 3D acceleration.  Compiz worked
wonderfully on this system when I tried it, too, under Dapper.  While
eye-candy isn't my thing, this is a great system.  It's just frustrating
that I don't have a dual-headed display working on it.

I have been at this for 18 hours and still no dice.  :-/

(Yes, having these displays is that important to me...)  The thing I
don't get is this:  It "just works" under Windows.  According to
everything that I am finding on Google, there are people (on every
distribution) that have issues, and yet few solutions are provided, so
far as I can find, anyway.  The few solutions that I have tried from the
Internet don't work very well at all, either; they result in nothing
being displayed on either monitor, with my laptop's LCD monitor doing
some very strange things.

    -- Mike
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