I am going to write a post on how I got this to work (preview: failsafe X fails and so does nvidia-settings) etc, but until then, I added a vertical monitor which so far is really cool, and is now running on Ubuntu 8.10 (pic is from Windows). Until then, my desk looks like:
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#1 by James T on January 5, 2009 - 2:18 pm
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Hey,
You have a really nice setup. Can I ask what are the mountains shown on the screens?
James
#2 by rick on January 5, 2009 - 2:26 pm
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i have this working in 64-bit 8.04.1, although performance is sluggish. possibly because of the multiple x-servers and xinerama? i don’t know.
setup: one pci-e geforce 6600 pushing 2 displays, one pci geforce 8400 pushing the third.
attempts to get this working in 32-bit 8.10 have failed, so i am VERY interested in how you got yours working
#3 by William Thigpen on January 5, 2009 - 4:09 pm
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Show it working in Ubuntu and ill be impressed. clean your desk off.
#4 by Christopher Denter on January 5, 2009 - 5:17 pm
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In order to get this to work with an nvidia card you will need seperate X screens (at least if you want to rotate the leftmost screen). TwinView doesn’t work since it only creates one large screen that consists of all the desktops added together.
Once you have different XServers running you can simply rotate via `xrandr -o [left|right|normal|etc]`.
I have a similar setup with two TFTs; both of which can be rotated. I am using TwinView at the moment, though, since seperate X’s don’t allow dragging a window to the other screen.
#5 by rick on January 5, 2009 - 5:25 pm
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@Christopher Denter: separate X’s with Xinerama DO allow dragging a window to the other screen, though.
#6 by hal on January 5, 2009 - 5:36 pm
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I am looking forward to this. I have three monitors, two connected to a matrox dualhead2go unit, and I have been able to get two working off the matrox, or two working without it, but not all three.
#7 by Dave on January 6, 2009 - 2:29 am
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I have a three monitor setup at home, with two identical geforce cards. It works with xinerama, allowing window dragging across all screens, but the performance isn’t great.
I’m waiting for a new version of randr/x.org, so they support multiple monitor spanning across multiple gpus, and i can dump xinerama.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840063
#8 by Rodrigo Schmidt on January 6, 2009 - 9:01 pm
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Are you aware that it’s running Windows, not Ubuntu as said at the post?
#9 by admin on January 7, 2009 - 12:37 am
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Read post, hit ctrl+f and search for “pic is from windows”
#10 by Ridley...your dog on January 7, 2009 - 5:46 pm
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I want to see pictures of Ubuntu on your Tri-Head setup. Also im hungry.