loyal_barber wrote:
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> My experience driving two monitors in Linux is driving both off
> one card. That works like a dream. Mine is Nvidia. I just fire
> up the Nvidia configuration tool, select the black monitor, enable
> it in "twinview" mode and then I have an extra big desktop. I
> personally don't think "twinview" is a very good description of
> what it does as "twin" normally means duplicate. In this case it
> means expanding your desktop. You might also mention what distro
> and version you are running.
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> Loyal
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Thanks for the info.
Alas, the bios is singularly unhelpful. There is very little that can
be changed. I recall being able to enable or disable the video card in
the earlier incarnation of this machine (before the MB died,) but this
one is definitely an idiot box.
The good news is that I was able to download the proprietary MSI drivers
for linux, which gave me a whole lot more control. The 'twin view'
option is grayed out, but I can at least choose the resolution that I like.
By the way, I'm running Linux Mint 7 Gloria. I'm going to upgrade to
Mint 9 soon.
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