[wplug] Twinview on NVidia

[Jonathan S. Billings]

On Mar 13, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Jason Jerome wrote:

>
> Has anyone ever successfully setup a "Twinview" configuration on an
> NVidia card?

I have, and didn't like it.  It didn't quite correctly handle the 
screens as well as Xinerama with other cards.  For example, when I 
tried to create a staroffice presentation, it would create a page that 
was as wide as the two displays, which screwed up all the formatting.  
If I tried using the same program with a Matrox G450 + Xinerama, 
openoffice would choose the right canvas size.

Another problem I ran into is I wasn't able to specify a modeline for 
the second display, only horizsync and vertrefresh.  So, my second 
display would look like crap because I needed to use a particular 
modeline that worked just fine on the first display.

Lastly, I saw a slight ghosting on the second display.  This probably 
was due to the hardware, but it has made me want to stay away from 
NVidia hardware for dual-display setups because I've encountered it 
with several NVidia cards, and didn't have the problem with similarly 
priced ATI Radeon cards.


> I have one of those Shuttle PC's (shuttle.com), which I'm running
> Fedora on.  It uses the NVidia NForce chipset, which is basically a
> video card bundled with network card, sound, etc.
>
> I have all the drivers installed correctly, and the thing runs pretty
> well.  However, I have a second monitor that I would love to get
> working with it.  I followed the documentation and checked out the
> forums for some advice, but I'm not too good at decoding the logs that
> could explain what I'm doing wrong with the X11 setup.
>
> Does anyone have a NVidia card and has Twinview setup and working
> correctly?
>
>
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