[ale] Best way to get dual display working (take 20k)

John jdp at algoloma.com
Sat Jan 8 10:58:29 EST 2011


Dual monitors for nVidia can be a hassle to:
   
http://blog.jdpfu.com/2010/09/27/kernel-update-reinstall-nvidia-dual-monitor-modules
and
   
http://blog.jdpfu.com/2010/05/12/ubuntu-10-04-dual-monitor-with-nvidia-driver


On 01/08/2011 12:00 AM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> Hey all, got it. I did finally find out about an ati command that
> creates the xorg.conf for multiple video cards/displays. Now I've just
> got to tweak it, to get it where I want it. I tried to do add the 2nd
> card in manually but the best I got was an all white screen with 4
> equally spaced vertical green lines. I am now able to get 2 separate
> desktops when I log in. Haven't tried using the PCIe card as my boot
> display yet, so I don't know if it's worth keeping the HD 5770 if the HD
> 3650 seems to be working as a secondary port.


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