3 or 4 monitors with Nvidia and Ubuntu

Posted by Jason on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Jason
Published on 2010-05-24T22:26:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 22:31 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 385

Filed under:

I saw that you are (were?) running 4 monitors with Ubuntu 8.10 and two Nvidia cards (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27113/how-to-use-3-monitors). I was curious if you were doing this with Xinerama, a hacked up TwinView config, or multiple X screens, or some other method? Does it work with compiz?

I intend to run my Dell 30" in the middle with two 1280x1024 on the sides and continue to use one X screen, and run compiz, on Ubuntu 9.04. Currently, I am using 2 monitors with twinview and compiz, which runs fantastic. I just can't get the third monitor running (unless I enable it in its own X screen, and then enable Xinerama to enable windows to be dragged as if all one X screen, but this breaks compiz, and I don't care much for having separate X screen).

I am very interested in knowing how you set up 4 monitors with 2 GPU's.

Thanks!

3 or 4 monitors with Nvidia and Ubuntu

Posted by Jason on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Jason
Published on 2010-05-24T22:26:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 22:41 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 387

Filed under:

ubuntu

|

multiple-monitors

|

nvidia

|

x-windows

|

compiz

I saw that you are (were?) running 4 monitors with Ubuntu 8.10 and two Nvidia cards (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27113/how-to-use-3-monitors). I was curious if you were doing this with Xinerama, a hacked up TwinView config, or multiple X screens, or some other method? Does it work with compiz?

I intend to run my Dell 30" in the middle with two 1280x1024 on the sides and continue to use one X screen, and run compiz, on Ubuntu 9.04. Currently, I am using 2 monitors with twinview and compiz, which runs fantastic. I just can't get the third monitor running (unless I enable it in its own X screen, and then enable Xinerama to enable windows to be dragged as if all one X screen, but this breaks compiz, and I don't care much for having separate X screen).

I am very interested in knowing how you set up 4 monitors with 2 GPU's.

Thanks!

Developer IT