Re: [BLUG] Nvidia driver and Twinview mode for dualhead displays

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Yeah, my four-head xorg.conf (attached)has two "Device" Sections (one for
each two-output card, with twinview settings for the second output on each
card) and two "Screen" sections. Nvidia includes an explanation of every
nvidia-specific option in the proprietary driver package (on my systems,
this gets dropped into /usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers).

Rich

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Mark Krenz wrote:

>
> That's what I was wondering, if you could use twinview to combine more
> than 2 monitors. Guess not. I wonder if you could have two sets of
> twinview dualhead displays.
>
> The 9 screens (actually 10 today because I brough in my laptop) don't
> give me sun burn, but they do require a good chiropractor.
>
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:11:29AM GMT, Matt Standish [mstandish@gmail.com] said the following:
>> Sweet... I am using 2 NVidia cards with 4 monitors. Both pairs are
>> twinview and then I joined them with xinerama, no 3d this way though.
>> That 9 screen display must give sun burn :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/8/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> You have a quad display on one system? Wow! How does that work
>>> exactly?
>>>
>>> BTW, since we're comparing, I actually have a 9 screen synergy setup
>>> at work. I can't take a picture of it due to policies at Cook, but its
>>> pretty sweet. 9 screens across 5 computers. Linux, Mac and Windows.
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:40:33AM GMT, Matt Standish
>>> [mstandish@gmail.com] said the following:
>>>> Yes, I have a few configs. Sax2 in Suse will detect it automagicaly
>>>> and install twinview. I also have a quad display.
>>>>
>>>> On 5/8/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone else here running the Nvidia proprietary drivers in the
>>>>> Twinview mode for dualhead diplays?
>>>>>
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