[olug] Dual Monitors in F16

[John Serafino]

ATI has a little bit of a bad reputation when it comes to driver support...

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jay Woods <woodsjay at cox.net> wrote:

> On Friday, December 02, 2011 09:22:32 AM Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
> > Have been using dual head for years.  Long ago with Matrox dual cards,
> > recent years with plain jane aftermarket nvidia cards.  Haven't thought
> > about it for a long time since it's been plug and play for quite some
> time.
> >  I too, use the proprietary drivers and stick with nvidia.
>
> It turns out that I only have one NVIDIA card; the rest are ATI. The NVIDIA
> download site is definitely new to me. Now, I'm trying to find one of my
> machines that will run the GeForce series 6 card.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > -Jeff
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:15 AM, John Serafino <lzrblade at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Second the motion for proprietary drivers(if you haven't tried that
> > > already), but there may still be those certain cards that just refuse
> to
> > > work. I had hoped such things didn't exist anymore, but I don't know.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Abraham <abrahams at teknohazard.com>
> wrote:
> > > > Do you have the proprietary drivers for your video adapter? I have an
> > > > nVidia graphics card, and the multi-monitor options are all inside
> the
> > > > desktop software that I had to download for it. I have Mint, but I
> > > > suspect multi-monitor settings are a feature of the driver software
> as
> > > > a rule.
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-- 
John