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I Just Had To Try 4 Monitors

Well, it seems they still haven't made any progress at making the Compiz graphics effects work on a multi-GPU setup, but you can run two X screens each using two monitors and keep the Compiz effects. If you want to grab and drag windows across all four monitors, you lose the cool graphics effects.

Here's what it might look like though using four monitors of three different sizes using xinerama without Compiz on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 with two nVidia cards, each driving two monitors:


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Charles Wyble's picture

Configs

Can you post the config you used? How difficult was it?

tony's picture

Not hard at all!

Install two nVidia cards (I have two PCI Express 16x slots) each with two DVI ports.

Launch Linux. ;-)

Use the nVidia control panel to activate the other screens in the "X Server Display Configuration" section and check the box for Xinerama.

Click to save to the xorg.conf file.

Reboot.

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