Maybe Nvidia can liberate their accelerated video specs and code so that people can make their cards work right. It's going to get hard for them to avoid that with Via, ATI and Intel promissing everthing.
Getting dual monitors working is not a priority for me but this conversation is interesting just the same so thanks for sharing. I'd like to implement it sooner than later and will be up against the same hardware. I have a spare monitor sitting around and have thought about setting it up for network and other heads up monitoring. The quick and dirty solution is to plug it into my gateway and have the processes running there. I'll probably want dual monitors running at my next job, whatever and whenever that might be. Eventually, I'll want more screen real estate at home. Until then, I'll be happy with Intel where I can get it and 2D nv on most of my hardware. E16's virtual desktops and pagers have been very good for my work. Dividing projects onto 3x3 virtual desktops was a good way to organize a lot of complicated work: http://68.225.99.100:1024/photo_album/chron/2007/2007_07_22_thesis_desktop/ It was fast and stable on a modest 512 MB RAM, 1GHz PIII laptop that ran at 800MHz when unplugged. It kind of sucks to not be able to use the video capability that's there for games but it was more than adequate for movies. 1440x900 screens are cheap these days and I picked one up the other month. It's easy to put two documents up against each other on a screen that size or bigger. More is better but a single large screen took care of that one thing virtual desktops can't. On Thursday 19 June 2008, Brad Bendily wrote: > ah yes. nvidia, they have twinview built-in. no need for extra > software. lucky you. > doesn't help anyone with a crappy intel card! > maybe the newer intel is better. OpenSuse 11 was released today, or > recently. Maybe > i'll try that. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
