Ubuntu: Anyone running dual video card and monitors
 

Just installed ubuntu, been trying to do some research on getting dual video cards and dual monitors to work but coming up empty. Anyone have any experience with this?

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I use ubuntu with dualscreen every weeks.

Brb reboot on ubuntu to explain you.

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Go in System->Parameters->Screen resolution

Use this tool to make your dual screen. You have the "clone" option on the top left.

I have the French version so names may vary from English one.

You can use "xrandr" tool in console too...

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I don't have a clone box. Also with xrandr it only displays info for screen 0 theres no mention of screen 1 although I can see the second video card (PCI) on the Application - > System Tools - > Device Manager

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So you don't see 2 screens in the resolution tools?

Maybe they are superposed...

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I guess I need to install "glint" so that way my second Video Card will actually show up as a video card and not as a PCI Device.

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Ive had iissues to where the config file was wrong and I had to manually edit it to get the desired options (even resolutions) to appear... and to work.

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Hum... I didnt realized that you have 2 video cards. I never had 2 cards....

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Crap! Pretty much akin to editing the registry right? At least things are running faster on Ubuntu.

Also are there any 'must have' apps for Ubuntu.

And any good online guides for driver installation and config editting

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That's one of the reasons I stopped using Ubuntu. Sure, it's not a big deal, but annoying that I even have to do it. The fact that there aren't (weren't?) drivers for my wireless card also pissed me off, since it was a pain in the ass using ndiswrapper to get the Windows drivers to sorta work.

After screwing with it for a while, I asked myself why? Sure it's quicker, more efficient, more stable blah blah, but I use a PC for software, and Windows has more of it with less BS.

I'm sure you'll need to either install another package, or edit some configuration files. Have fun.

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I wouldnt go as far as to saay nearly as cryptic as editing a Windows Reg file, but a simple Googling SHOULD find you what you need...


I agree... I like Vista. I dont give a ---- what anyone says... SHits riock solid on my machine... And ALL my ---- works

Re: Ubuntu: Anyone running dual video card and monitors
 

what video cards are you using?

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Look for crossover, it lets you install windows programs. Also get wine it is a windows emulater. Last what Ubuntu are you runing?

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Gentoo > all, but only if you have the time ;)

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xorg.conf is a dirty, dirty slut.


Also +1. Vista > everything else out right now.

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Nooooo...the memories...

But its a resource hog and it doesn't run everything and it always asks if I'm sure and and...

Yeah I haven't had a single problem and it runs smooth as butter.

Windows 7 is more efficient with resource use but I don't like what they're doing with the task bar...

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If you want to turn off the UAC (are you sure you want to do that dave prompt)

Open security center..

Click on other security settings
Turn off user account control.

You are welcome.

---- LUA



Yes... Yes it is.

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Fix ---- vista, it eats ram like a fat person in a all you can eat buffet :6

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I have aero running, probably 30 google chrome tabs open, listening to music, Pidgin IM running, and GTA2 running in the background. It's using a gig of ram on my 500 dollar laptop and running smooth as butter on a 30 dollar 2g stick. Ram is cheap, buy a ---- ton.

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No way. XP > Vista


Using two separate Video cards is the shittier way for running two monitors IIRC. Do you want it to be extended desktop? ie one desktop split on two screens?

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XP is ok, but it's old. There's no reason that it's functionally better than Vista. The only grief I have with vista is that you can't drag files into a cd folder and burn a data cd that will play in a car. That's it so far, and I've been running it for months.

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C'mon BDVT...had that fixed within 5 minutes of installing it for the first time :-*

To any of you talking about how horrible Vista is, who's used it since SP1, or even at all?

It does use more resources than XP. But, XP uses more than win2k, win2k uses more than 98, 98 uses more than 95, 95 uses more than 3.1, 3.1 uses more than DOS............etc

Ram is cheap as ---- like rawr said. I have 4 x 2gb sticks of "high quality performance ram" for $100. You can probably get 8gb of decent ram for $50, it's not expensive.

Win7 is even better than Vista with resources since everyone's whining about it. They had a beta running smoothly on a dinky netbook only using around 200mb of ram...

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Alright. To take this in another direction. What dual screen supporting OS Flava would you guys recommend for web-browsing and media viewing? Looking for efficiency and stability

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xp and dual monitor vidcard.

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which ubuntu build has the elite video rendering for switching users/partitions with 3D cubes and such?

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I guess I just like XP better because it uses less resources, and I haven't really upgraded my machine since about 5 years ago. Sempron 3100+ ftw




I would just get a 1 video card that supports dual monitors.

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All of them, you will need the compiz/beryl package if you want eye candy.

Differents people, differents taste, prepare to receive bunch of differents answers too. Currently using fedora with a dual screen at work and found it pretty stable. At home everything is gentoo powered.

For video cards if you're using linux I will suggest nvidia card based. Stay away for any ati cards, linux support suck balls.

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I like Fedora...

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Why not? I do that with DVDs, haven't tried a CD but I don't know why it wouldn't work.

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I'm not exactly sure why, but I'm assuming vista writes it in a different style file system that the car player cant read. My new pioneer wma/mp3/aac player won't read the disks unless I burn with WMP or some other software.

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CDA format is CDA format... Visata works fine for me....


DOnt know what you have going on....

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look it up online.

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1...;t+play+in+car

I have a pioneer, newer than yours I believe.

Know how to fix it?

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I don't think he wants CDA format, he has an mp3 player so it would just be burned like a normal data cd-rom

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Yes sir.