Comments on: Set up dual monitor in Linux

By: tim

tim — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:09:29 +0000

dident work for me
i’m using nvidia GeForce 7100 GS

any one have luck with that ?

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:04:26 +0000

Very helpful! I now have a ViewSonic VA2226w setup with a Philips CRT 107T 17 inch monitor connected to a GeForce 7300 GT video card, but both display exactly the same content (just duplicates). I want to extend from one monitor to the other – any suggestions? Is the “Twinview” option something to do with it?

By: noah

noah — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:50:34 +0000

I have the same viewsonic va226w monitor. I got the resolution set the right way. the color profile isn’t right though. the colors are all washed out and messed up. I have messed with the rgb, contrast, and brightness settings. it must be something else. here is the part of the xorg.conf file that I would like to see from a working setup.

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Generic Monitor”
Vendorname “ViewSonic”
Modelname “ViewSonic VA2226w”
Horizsync 30-82
Vertrefresh 50-75

modeline “1680×1050″ 146.25 1680 1768 1944 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 +hsync -vsync

Gamma 1.0
EndSection

any other ideas.

By: shakir

shakir — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:04:16 +0000

@Bonar: I’ve tried it on compiz before, and I can say that it works fine, but only if xinerama is not enabled.

By: Bonar

Bonar — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:37:51 +0000

hey!…
It’s help me a lot…
are you using compiz 3D?

Can you try it using both monitor…