Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors
On Wednesday 25 November 2015 20:14:04 Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> Pretty Please,
> tell me this isn't true:
> The only sensible answer I got from debian list boils down to: "use
> proprietary driver".
>
> This is truly sad, especially since I *know* Linux Mint (which is a debian
> derivative, through ubuntu parentage) does indeed work out-of-the-box with
> *no* configuration at all.
Presumably with a proprietary driver. Mint makes no claims to be entirely
Free.
Lisi
>
> A desolate
> Mauro
>
> Il 23/11/2015 14:40, Ric Moore ha scritto:
> > On 11/22/2015 10:44 AM, Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> >> Thanks Ric,
> >> care to share details on how You managed such a marvel?
> >> How did You disable the internal (intel) "video card" (actually inside
> >> the CPU chip)? From BIOS?
> >> What other configuration did You do?
> >
> > I just disabled the video feature in the bios. Then I loaded the nvidia
> > driver. Then I used nvidia-settings to use xinerama and to configure the
> > order of the monitors. When you "save to X configuration file", save it
> > in your home directory as you are "user" and not able to save directly to
> > /etc/X11. Open a terminal and "sudo cp xorg.conf /etc/X11" to put it
> > there. If you have monitors of differing size, the X Server Display
> > Configuration will allow you to play tricks, like panning to a smaller
> > screen to be bigger through scrolling. Slick! Ric
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