Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors
On Wednesday 25 November 2015 21:12:03 Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> 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.
Then why can't you use the same version of nouveau in Debian?
> 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
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