Wednesday July 11, 2007
Wednesday July 11, 2007
TwinView on Ubuntu: Hurray!
Finally got TwinView working on Ubuntu! Although various people, after my earlier appeal on this subject, were extremely helpful in telling me about nvidia-settings, the Detect Settings button, the TwinView option, and 'Clone', no one told me... that the laptop's resolution needs to be set to the same resolution as the external display (i.e., the beamer)... and not the other way round. The beamer's resolution is fixed, while my laptop's resolution needs to be set to match it. At least, that's what I ended up doing and it works beautifully and consistently. On this point I tripped up over and over again over the past months, ending up with wacky and ultimately unusable resolutions. Maybe this matching of the laptop with the external display is so obvious that no one bothered to write to me about it, but it really seems to be the key.
Castern Meyer, the organizer of the Siemens Java Talks in Munich, where I am now, led me out of the darkness. Great that this is working now. Currently I now am 100% on Ubuntu. No going back.
Jul 11 2007, 06:58:50 AM PDT Permalink
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