In my first post, I was trying a xinerama setup using a laptop with it's onboard Intel graphics chip; display 0 the DFP of the laptop and display 1 monitor connected to the VGA port.
We got the setup to work halfway, the display would come up on the main monitor stating low memory issue. We changed the res. to 800x600 but still it would not work. The system bios was allocating a fixed 8M memory - not dynamic/changeable. We then decided to use a dual port video card with it's own memory. Installed a NVidia dual port card GEForce 8600 GT (512 MB RAM) on a desktop. Installed the NVidia binary drivers, they also provide a config utility nvidia-settings. Using the util, we were able to get a TwinView setup. Required a couple of hand edit tweaking in the xorg.conf I also got this as a reference from one of the ILUG-Mumbai member. > http://my.opera.com/sjosul/blog/ubuntu-8-04-dual-monitor-setup > Here is the snippet that allows "stretching" the entire desktop over the two monitors. <snippet from xorg.conf> Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 8600 GT" Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" # this option stretches the # desktop over 2 screens EndSection </snippet from xorg.conf> -- Arun Khan -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
