I've used Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and openSuSE on my laptop, and when connecting a second monitor only Ubuntu did the job without any hassle.
Sax2 was completely hopeless, it kept kicking back the res on my main screen and didn't do anything to activate the second. In suse I ended up using the nvidia-settings program, that got the second screen going without effecting the first one, however I only got a portion of the screen due to differing resolutions. In Ubuntu I just hit a function key and both screens came up perfectly in a clone fashion. To use twin view in Ubuntu, I fired up nvidia-settings and it worked just fine. Ubuntu's X tool didn't work reliably, but nvidia-settings did. Fedora was some where in the middle, and I ended up tweeking xorg manually. With Debian, I was using an older set of software, and so the only way to get dual screen was by vi'ing xorg. These are just my experiences and others may be different. Summary, if you want minimal hassle with dual screens and have an nvidia card, Ubuntu is the way. Tuxta On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 16:13 +1100, David P wrote: > I've personally never had a problem with SaX2 (X config tool in yast2) > and it's dual-head/Xinerama options, though it doesn't have a > web-based interface. I'd think success with multi-head on any distro > depends a lot on the graphics card (my geforce 6200 with proprietary > nvidia drivers works great). I'm sure that the graphical X config > tools in fedora and such would work great as well. > > David > > > On 12/19/07, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > In spite of being a staunch fan of configuring X with vi, i am looking > > for a graphical configuration tool for Xorg. Especially one with good > > multi-head support. So i am wondering if anyone has any thoughts. > > > > Generally i am a debian man, but am willing to go with suse, fedora etc. > > Not sure if yast2 has web based config, i know it has ncurses and x11. > > But im not sure how good its multi-head configuration goes. > > > > Web based would even be nice. > > > > Even perl modules to simplify making my own interface would be helpfull. > > > > Nvidia-xconfig is may also make my life easier and i am aware of it. > > > > Dean > > -- > > http://fragfest.com.au > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
