Core 5 multi display support

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/2/06, Hadders <fedora at workingwithit.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I'm thinking it would be nice to program with multi monitors.  In
> particular, one running VMWare and Windows so I can test the web app
> programs I develop. Currently I use two boxes to achieve this. But the
> constant twisting and turning isn't probably the best, yes age catches
> up with us all.
>
> However, I prefer Linux as a programming environment (especially seeing
> that I do SQL development too (love that middle click copy/paste)), but
> was wondering if it (Core 5) easily supports multi display and the
> nvidia nView stuff, or is that a Windows only thing?  Perhaps someone
> can make a recommendation on cards etc?
>
> Any help or comments would be appreciated...
>
> Was thinking of getting this card,
> http://tw.giga-byte.com/Products/VGA/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2235
> a solid performer, but not excessive...
> This was the blurb on the nvidia site about nView
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_nview.html

nview is a windoze thing.  any videocard with an nvidia GPU and two
display device connectors can do xinerama and/or twinview with the
nvidia X driver.


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