On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 20:07 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: Gustin, What do you mean by default nvidia driver? Is it Nouveau? Nouveau just works too, and they say plays nice with the user, but with some hit in performance.
Mel > If you are using the default nvidia driver, the Ubuntu monitors under > System -> Preferences is where you want to be. The interface is point > and click, if you connect an external panel it should show up here. > > If you are using the proprietary drivers (I feel sorry for you if you > need this), nVidia provides a similar point and click interface > (nvidia-settings or something like this). > > In both cases you can mirror the display or do a dual head display > sort of thing. I just replaced an nVidia 9500 with an ATI 5770 at > home. I have two displays and the ATI just worked. My experience is > also the same on my laptop (with an Intel). The nVidia Settings > program seemed to glitch out once in a while. > > As for the issues at CLUG meetings, I see the same with Windows > laptops at the office. Vendor sales teams seem to constantly have > issues plugging their laptops into the various projectors and SMART > boards we have, so I am not sure this is something that is Linux > specific. > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Rick Johnson <rick.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 00:31:10 Craig McLean wrote: > >> Does Linux (in particular Ubuntu 10.10, using the Nvidia X Server > >> proprietary driver) allow you to easily configure an external display > >> device. What I'm thinking of here is the scenario where you show up to do > >> a presentation and just plug a projector or large LCD panel in to a laptop > >> that is already turned on hit a display switch hot key and start > >> presenting. I do this in Windows all the time but I've been to enough CLUG > >> and Protospace presentations to know that on Linux this always turns into > >> a mess of X-Server restarts and plenty of tweaking config settings. > >> > >> > >> > >> Is there any way to make that just work? > >> > >> > >> > >> Craig. > > Connect the second display then open the nvidia x server settings app, setup > > the second display and save the new xorg.conf in /home/~. Then open a > > terminal, su and cp the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11. The driver will now > > automatically sort itself out whether the second display is connected or > > not. > > > > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
