On Wednesday 25 November 2015 20:14:04 Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Pretty Please, > tell me this isn't true: > The only sensible answer I got from debian list boils down to: "use > proprietary driver". > > This is truly sad, especially since I *know* Linux Mint (which is a debian > derivative, through ubuntu parentage) does indeed work out-of-the-box with > *no* configuration at all.
Presumably with a proprietary driver. Mint makes no claims to be entirely Free. Lisi > > A desolate > Mauro > > Il 23/11/2015 14:40, Ric Moore ha scritto: > > On 11/22/2015 10:44 AM, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > >> Thanks Ric, > >> care to share details on how You managed such a marvel? > >> How did You disable the internal (intel) "video card" (actually inside > >> the CPU chip)? From BIOS? > >> What other configuration did You do? > > > > I just disabled the video feature in the bios. Then I loaded the nvidia > > driver. Then I used nvidia-settings to use xinerama and to configure the > > order of the monitors. When you "save to X configuration file", save it > > in your home directory as you are "user" and not able to save directly to > > /etc/X11. Open a terminal and "sudo cp xorg.conf /etc/X11" to put it > > there. If you have monitors of differing size, the X Server Display > > Configuration will allow you to play tricks, like panning to a smaller > > screen to be bigger through scrolling. Slick! Ric