Dual Monitor Setups

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/2009 07:59 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM, GMAIL - James McDonald
>> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Ken Moffat wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-52H m/b with built in ATI graphics that will
>>>> do dual monitors, one VGA, one DVI. I use Ubuntu for that, it required
>>>> the
>>>> proprietary ATI drivers, and I had to fiddle with the setup, but it
>>>> worked.
>>>
>>> So I would really need to get a DVI cable and then it would work.
>>>
>>> What has been your experience with the ATI graphics?
>>
>> ATI for linux has improved a little bit, but it still sucks in
>> comparison to nVidia that just works everytime.
>>
>> Maybe you should just cough up the extra bucks for an add-on video
>> card (nVidia preferralbly) and worry less aobut the built-in video.
>>
>
> I am using 2-head NVIDIA cards on all my desktops for dual monitors and I do
> not have any problems. I used to have to download the Linux drivers from
> nvidia web site. Then whenever I updated the kernel I had to recompile the
> driver again. I think since release 11, Fedora has the nvidia drivers so I
> just use the ones from Fedora. Since then I do not have to recompile the
> driver after updating the kernels.

Fedora has never, and will (likely) never ship the nvidia X driver.
Whatever you're using is coming from some 3rd party repo, if you're
not installing it manually.



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