2009/10/30 <tim.ritt...@doctors.org.uk>: > Hi all, > > Good to hear lots of people are having no problems with karmic. Unfortnately > I've hit a big problem. I use two monitors as two separate X servers using a > geforce GTS8600 graphics card. This was working well under jaunty, but only > one screen is now supported under karmic. > > I've filed a bug and it looks like at least one other person has had problems > with a similar card. I wonder if anyone else has struggled with this. > > I've switched to debian in the meantime, but having resolution issues there! > > How many people out there use dual monitors? Is the general poor support for > dual monitors a conequence of the closed source nature of the graphics > drivers? I would ideally like to use kde, but this doesn't support dual > screens at all. > > Any comments? > > Regards, > > Tim >
Different card (9600GT), but I have dual screen working with TwinView via the nvidia-settings. It's not ideal for a permanent dual screen setup as it needs to be reapplied each boot, but at least it should work as a temporary solution. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
