[GRLUG] Linux and multiple monitors

[Roberto Villarreal]

On Tue June 19 2012 9:38:43 AM Ben Rousch wrote:
> 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).

No disagreement there... I'm just happy to be on the greener side of the 
fence.  Up until maybe a year ago, whenever I did an upgrade and saw a kernel 
update come across, it was hold-your-breath time when doing a reboot.  Could 
be coicidence, but it seemed that once the DKMS stuff came along that 
everything "just worked".