[GRLUG] Linux and multiple monitors

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:13:04AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.

That's strange.  I've used my laptop with external monitors/projectors
regularly for over a year and have had no trouble with the nVidia
drivers.  None.

> 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. 

Is that without an xorg.conf?
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