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Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:05 am
by volomike
josh wrote:I would be more than willing to give up WIndows altogether if someone can help me in getting more than 2 monitors working on Linux
Oh, I have 2 monitors working. Not more than that. Wouldn't think it would be an issue, though. Just get all 3 on exclusive video cards. The way I do it is install the OS with just one monitor and one video card, then save your xorg.conf. Now reinstall again with just one video card and one monitor, but from the second set. Again, save your xorg.conf. Repeat one more time and save your xorg.conf. Now read up on merging xorg.confs. Put all the hardware together, boot the OS, and merge your xorg.confs. It took me two days in my case because I had a funky laptop video chip from nVidia, but I managed it. However, in my case I only have it going on 2 monitors. But I tell you, I really would have another case for a 3rd monitor, but I would definitely wanting that running on a completely separate laptop to tell you the truth.
I think I also read if I'm not mistaken that you do SSD stuff with your computers. Wow -- I wish I had the cash right now because I know my system would be smoking fast if I did that. Still, my little dual proc 64 bit AMD processor Acer laptop with 2GB of RAM really does a knockup job for $460 (brand new). She doesn't look as sexy as a Mac book, and I definitely want to get a Mac laptop to format and install Ubuntu, but she'll do for now quite well. I run 2 Windows VMs (XP and Windows 2008 Server) on my Acer laptop while doing coding in Ubuntu, and can even load up Gimp and Inkscape and never have lockups or have performance issues. Windows 7 would likely choke if it had to run 3 OSes + Gimp + Inkscape + OpenOffice + Firefox simultaneously, my bet.
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:03 am
by josh
I got a SSD and it crashed after a few months. I am refactoring a several million record database, and to test it I run 400+ "migrations" scripts against the data, usually I use a sample data set but I still test on the full data from time to time, and I think that killed it (too much stress/usage)
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 3:44 pm
by daedalus__
ohh! hey the nvidia driver for ubuntu supports dual-monitors on a single card!
i also found this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174
besides.. dual monitors? pssh. gnome has multiple viewports
the only thing i regret about moving to linux is that i haven't been able to get fl studio to work.
sorry for the htreadjack!
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:17 pm
by arjan.top
every driver supports multiple monitors, he is asking about setting up more than two
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:11 pm
by josh
Yeah I installed the drivers but it did not change anything. I don't use nvidia by the way.
It sounds like the xorg.conf merging will work. I will try that out and open another thread if it doesn't ( and I know who to ask

Volomike!)
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:33 am
by volomike
Dadelus' ubuntuforums link will help you redo an xorg.conf without having to reinstall the whole OS. Forgot to mention that. You may have to power off the PC to remove cards and such, but at least you will only need to install the OS once. Now, if you're using another OS besides Ubuntu, that's fine -- the link he has might still work for you. Just note that I'm on Ubuntu.
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:20 pm
by VladSun
I've used Ubuntu+NVidia+TwinView(2xLCD horizontal span) for an year+.
Several distro upgrades performed with no problems (no xorg reconfigure, no kernel recompile, no ... nothing).
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:07 am
by JAB Creations
Any company willing to spend a hundred million dollars a year to gain a monopoly on a market (browsers/IE), wins, and then abandons that market completely is simply not worth trusting. I highly doubt they spent more then a few million dollars on IE7 and the IE9 previews were apparently done after three weeks worth of work...so wait...had IE8 been delayed by three weeks IE8 could have had full CSS3 selector support?

Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:33 am
by papa
volomike wrote:josh wrote:I would be more than willing to give up WIndows altogether if someone can help me in getting more than 2 monitors working on Linux
Oh, I have 2 monitors working. Not more than that. Wouldn't think it would be an issue, though. Just get all 3 on exclusive video cards. The way I do it is install the OS with just one monitor and one video card, then save your xorg.conf. Now reinstall again with just one video card and one monitor, but from the second set. Again, save your xorg.conf. Repeat one more time and save your xorg.conf. Now read up on merging xorg.confs. Put all the hardware together, boot the OS, and merge your xorg.confs. It took me two days in my case because I had a funky laptop video chip from nVidia, but I managed it. However, in my case I only have it going on 2 monitors. But I tell you, I really would have another case for a 3rd monitor, but I would definitely wanting that running on a completely separate laptop to tell you the truth.
.......
Even though I don't like everything M$ does they still have some really nice stuff out there. And I mean you've met a couple of people from M$ and all of them were <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>, it doesn't mean that all people that work at M$ are <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span>. It still works thousands of skilled people all over the globe.
It
only took you two days to set up two monitors? Um...
I'm currently working with Silverlight and Sharepoint (MOSS) in different projects and that's some really nice stuff coming from M$.
Also I like W7 so not everything is bad that they produce.

Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:39 am
by volomike
But the system stability was sooooo worth it, Papa.
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:10 pm
by daedalus__
you know i was thinking about how they came with silverlight the other day and am really wondering whether microsoft is driving or impeding innovation.
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:13 pm
by volomike
By now I don't think it's too hard to guess on that one.
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:53 am
by papa
daedalus__ wrote:you know i was thinking about how they came with silverlight the other day and am really wondering whether microsoft is driving or impeding innovation.
Well it's a lot different from Flash for example and it's very powerful. One nice thing also is that the code is completely sepparated from the graphics so you can have a programmer and a designer working at the same time without afffecting anything of what the other one is doing. Then you can easily add the functionality to the design.
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 10:08 am
by volomike
...and have your system completely hacked. LOL
Re: *!%$*!^%*!*#$# Microsoft
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 11:24 am
by arjan.top
papa wrote:
Well it's a lot different from Flash for example and it's very powerful. One nice thing also is that the code is completely sepparated from the graphics so you can have a programmer and a designer working at the same time without afffecting anything of what the other one is doing. Then you can easily add the functionality to the design.
and you can't do that in flash/flex?