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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Good for you. I only go back to Windows when playing guitar on my Native Instruments Guitar Rig digital guitar amp...hope one day they will port it to Linux...the last app that stil forces me to have a Windows partition...
Posted by Jacek on July 11, 2007 at 07:36 AM PDT #
I guess it depends on the machine and the card. I have a Dell D510 with an intel card and I use it with different resolutions, my external monitor is at 1440x900 the laptop's at 1152x758 (I think).
BTW: I only use Fedora, and have been able to do this since at least Fedora Core 4 without any tweeks.
Posted by 208.115.227.155 on July 12, 2007 at 01:14 PM PDT #
I'm making the break with Windows too. Fedora 7 is working beautifully for me, and I'm very impatient...
Posted by Jeremy Faden on July 13, 2007 at 12:32 PM PDT #
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