Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

[Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it>]

Il 25/11/2015 21:28, Lisi Reisz ha scritto:
> 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.
You should (!) not presume too much.
I am not used to speak without checking.
Linux Mint uses nouveau for NVidia.
If You would have bothered checking lsmod I sent a few days ago you would have known.

Regards
Mauro

> 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