[GRLUG] Linux and multiple monitors

[Ben Rousch]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Roberto Villarreal
<rvillarreal at mktec.com> wrote:
>
> I think for every person with this experience, you're going to find another
> person with the exact opposite experience (me).  I've had exactly two issues
> with the proprietary driver: one, trying to get it work alongside both an ATI
> proprietary driver as well as a Matrox one (yes, I'm a glutton for
> punishment), and second finding out that you can't have two different nvidia
> modules loaded at the same time.  But neither of these are a typical user
> scenario...
>
> Now, if they provide a Triview/Quadview equivalent to their Twinview so I can
> stop using Xinerama, I'll turn from a supporter into a cheerleader!
>
>> nouveau has been very reliable for me on my last two laptops and my
>> workstation.
>
> And my new non-bleeding edge computer wouldn't even boot because of that
> module, not even into "recovery mode".  Had to disable it via altered grub
> command line to even boot into the system to replace it with the binary.
>
> It (nouveau) worked fine on my laptop, but is just quicker with the binary.
> Only issue is with the third or fourth hibernate without a reboot, then things
> can get wonky.

Your comments emphasize the problem. Nvidia works well for some people
under some configurations, and is unreliable for others. This makes it
a real PITA to troubleshoot. If I wanted to fart around with different
drivers to get things working right I would use Windows 98. Nearly
every other piece of hardware on Linux just works. Nvidia does not
just work. That's why it gets the middle finger from Linus (and now
me).

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