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____/ Tom Shelton on Thursday 11 September 2008 22:39 : \____
> On 2008-09-11, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> ____/ Linonut on Thursday 11 September 2008 21:04 : \____
>>
>>> * Tom Shelton peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>> I was sort of wondering that myself. I've been running muli-head for
>>>> quite a while on windows, yet I've never gotten a statisfactory result on
>>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> Bullshit. Unless you're talking about a quibble like some apps
>>> (OpenOffice) putting their splash screen across two monitors.
>>
>> Utter bull. I've done multi-head with 3 distros and 2 GPU vendors and there
>> was never an issue. X handles it well. Maybe your graphics card was bad (or
>> came with bad drivers).
>>
>
> No, your fabricating:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors
> [
> Based on my own experiences from using a dual-monitor setup in Gentoo
> for quite some time, I have decided to write a little howto on how to
> do it, for using both Xinerama and separate screens. I've even gotten
> 3d acceleration working (if not at the best possible speeds) in both
> setups.
>
> Does setting up a dualhead under linux really have to be so hard? It's
> so elementary!
> ]
>
> Dual monitor support is a pain - it doesn't always work correctly. X handles
> it very, very badly, IMHO.
>
> I like linux, and I support Linux, but dual head support is crap in my
> experience.
With the latest NVidia drivers it's a plug-and-play drag-and-drop job.
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