On Thursday 17 Jul 2008, Rony wrote:
Arun Khan wrote:
Ubuntu 8.04.1, Intel graphics chip on laptop - shows as 2 distinct ports:
See if this helps.
http://my.opera.com/sjosul/blog/ubuntu-8-04-dual-monitor-setup
Thanks for the link. It talks about a NVidia card using their binary drivers (which is what we finally ended up doing).
When I posted, I was try to a xinerama setup using a laptop with it's onboard Intel graphics chip. We got the setup to work halfway, the display would come up on the main monitor only stating low memory issue. We changed the res. to 800x600 but still it would not work. The system bios was allocating a fixed 8M memory - not dynamic/changeable.
We then decided to use a dual port video card with it's own memory. Installed a NVidia dual port card GEForce 8600 GT (512 dedicated memory) on a desktop. Installed the NVidia binary drivers, they also provide a config utility nvidia-settings. Using the util, we were able to get a TwinView setup. Required a couple of hand edit tweaking in the xorg.conf
-- Arun Khan