On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 18:35 +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
Does your existing Nvidia card have dual outputs?
No it is a single output GF4 of some kind.
and are you using the non-free driver?
Yep
If yes, then use Twinview as it works outside of X and basically presents a single large screen (AIUI) which just acts as a normal single display (albeit over 2 screens). The other method using Xinerama involves configuring 2 seperate cards and then glueing the 2 displays together (I think). I've only ever used the former method, which worked very well and seamlessly (and this was 3 years ago now).
Ahhh cool, that sounds more simple than the scenario I was imagining with a virtual desktop per display. Doesn't that sort of break things that want to run in fullscreen mode ? How does it behave if something (for example a game or dvd playback ) tries to go fullscreen (as in no window border) Does it just go fullscreen on the first display (desired operation) or does it try and span both screens.