On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Has anyone gotten three heads set up with Fedora? I figure it will > require the proprietary driver, and while that is not optimal, I'm > willing to do it. I really want to have three monitors set up. > > If so, how'd you do it? I used to use 2 NVidia cards, each with dual DVI output. I used identical cards but I'm not sure if that matters. As others have mentioned, this can cause problems. For one, compiz and friends don't work. I also found that Java GUI applications load slower, and for work I use a specific Java desktop application a lot. I know use a single NVidia card. One output goes to what I'd call my primary monitor. The other goes into a Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital unit. This makes my 2 other 24" monitors appear as one large 3840x1200. This gives me my 3 24" monitors with full performance. One hack I had to do was to put in a custom libxinerama library that lies about screen configuration. This makes applications think I have 3 identical monitors instead of just 2 so that maximize works properly - so for all intensive purposes, while the driver only sees 2 monitors, the OS sees it as 3. Jason -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
