[nzlug] Multi-screen systems

Nick 'Zaf' Clifford zaf at nrc.co.nz
Fri Jun 15 17:45:53 NZST 2007


If I were feeling greedy, or rather, rich, I'd get a quad view Nvidia
card and use "TwinView" on it. (Assuming of course TwinView isn't
restricted to, as it says, Twin monitors).

Nick


Robin Sheat 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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