[GRLUG] Linux and multiple monitors

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 08:55 -0400, Brad DeVries wrote: 
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:

>         It is definitely still an issue. I had projector detection
>         fail last

Very much depends on the hardware.

>         night using the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

The proprietary drives *SUCK*.  Trying to do external / dual displays
was terrible.  It would work, then not, then work, then get dorked up,
then work again, ugh.  Sometimes clicking detect-displays a dozen times
worked.

nouveau has been very reliable for me on my last two laptops and my
workstation.

> I've had no problems when I use my laptop with Intel graphics. 

Ditto, I have no issues using my hardware that has recent Intel GPUs.
And mirrored displays with a project have been very reliable with those
for some time [older ones do not dual-display well at all - hardware
limitation]. 
> I've actually had pretty good result recently.  I have a laptop with
> an Intel HD Graphics card and it's worked flawlessly with Ubuntu in
> these three configurations:
> 1) Just the laptop's display.
> 2) The laptop's display and a HD TV.
> 3) Two external monitors when the laptop is on its docking station.
> It's even remembered the layouts across multiple OS upgrades.

Yep,  same on openSUSE 12.1 / GNOME3 with Intell and Nouveau. 
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