On Friday 18 July 2008 12:32:29 pm Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Friday 18 Jul 2008 20:07:51 Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Truly I don't know. My desktop has two monitors (Nvidia driver). I have > > yet to try to connect a monitor to my laptop, but I bet it will work. I > > have wondered about this as well. I know people on this list have used > > an external monitor on there laptop. What is your proposed use? Perhaps > > someone here can give you info? > > I've had terrible times recently. > > My laptop uses the "nvidia" driver. I had been using X with TwinView > configuration for long. Sometime around 6 months back, one fine day, my > TwinView setup stopped working. I can't recollect why. > > Since I've found nobody else talking about the problem, I believe my vga > port might have gone bad. > > But when I saw the text in the wiki, I've regenerated some hope that it > might be the X server which might have the support removed (but that would > be the rarest case). > > I can't try install windows anymore because the entire hdd is already > occupied by debian. > > So, with current "nvidia" binarly-only drivers, are people able to set > TwinView. > > Ritesh This is what I did: followed this guide: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers to install nvidia the debian way. I have also installed nvidia with the nvidia installer. Both ways will work, at least for Sid. then I installed nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings Since dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg will not give you a driver selection anymore and making one from scratch is to much work for me, after I install nvidia (the debian way) I run nvidia-xconfig. That will re-write your xorg.conf file to start nvidia. Then I, after I reboot, I run nvidia-settings from with in the GUI (sudo or su to root). I then config twin view with that tool, under advanced, you can also select a secondary config(X Screen tab, MetaMode: Add) where one of your monitors is turned off. This is handy for two reasons: 1. Any game you run full screen will not now be divided between the two monitors. 2. Any full size app will not automaticaly span both monitors, but will only maximize to one monitor size. HTH. -- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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