suggestions for 3-monitor display

Tino Keitel tino.keitel+xorg at tikei.de
Fri Mar 27 01:18:28 PDT 2009


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 19:13:38 -0700, Glen Lenker wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am trying to get my three monitors to work with 2 graphic cards.
> 
> my setup:
> Intel integrated G31
> nvidia 8600 GTS
> 
> I was able to get this to work around a year ago with xinerama, but
> now that xrandr has more or less xinerama, I can't get X to start up
> with xinerama anymore. I can post my xorg.conf and my Xorg.0.log if

The Intel driver doesn't support Xinerama anymore (it crashes the
Xserver if Xinerama is enabled), and RandR doesn't support more than
one card.  To get 3 displays, you need to put in one more graphics card
that supports Xinerama.

Regards,
Tino




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