[nzlug] Multi-screen systems

[Toby Collett]

Just a note of warning, nvidia cards with different chipsets can be unstable
when used together, and xorg xinerama does not play well with twinview (the
xinerama info that twinview provides gets clobbered by the xorg xinerama)

Toby

On 6/15/07, Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
>
> Say I was getting a new computer, and wanted four monitors on it because
> I'm
> feeling greedy, what would be a good way of doing something like that
> (Linux
> support is, naturally, a requirement)? Would it be sufficient to get two
> nVidia dual-head cards? If so, would you use xinerama across them all, or
> twinview on pairs and xinerama to glue the pairs together, or some other
> way?
>
> Would this approach work? Are there better ways?
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