Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen woes.. ;)

[Charles Myers <cmyers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 08:02 +1000, James Gray wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:52 pm, Charles Myers wrote:
> > Ok yet another possible silly question, I have googled but everything
> > that isnt related comes up (as you will see my problem maybe very
> > specific?)
> >
> > I have Ubuntu running dual screen, but when I play a game the game
> > centres in between the two monitors. Is this usual? Or would anyone know
> > a workaround I could use to direct it to one monitor?
> >
> > Thanks for any help..
> 
> If you're using a reasonably recent nVidia card (Geforce onwards) they have an 
> option called "TwinView" that allows you to setup "meta modes" that can use 
> one monitor or another instead of spanning.  I use the drivers from nVidia, 
> not the pre-packaged ones - no idea if the pre-packaged driver has these 
> features, but replacing it with the one from nVidia isn't hard.
> 
> I have a pair of 19" LCD's hooked up to my FX5700 card on Kubuntu (Breezy) and 
> when I have the need[1] to do some fragging Quake runs on the right hand 
> screen at 1024x768 (fully accelerated) and the left hand monitor dutifully 
> goes to sleep.  When the game exits, both monitors come back to life at 
> 1280x1024 and all is good with the world :)
> 
> If you have an nVidia card and want a hand with the meta modes/TwinView 
> config, drop me a line (it's all documented by nVidia but still involves a 
> bit of trial and error).  If you've got an ATi card....I pity you. ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
> [1] Yes dammit! Fragging is a NEED - without it, there'd be many dead/larted
>     lusers in my part of the world :P
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Cool, I have an Nvidia card. I will investigate what drivers I am using
and try to fix up. I will email you when (as I know I will ;) get
stuck :P



Thanks for the help...

Charles.