Re: [SLUG] Nvidia GeForce FX5700 256 setup on Ubuntu 9.04

From: Pete Theisen (petetheisen@verizon.net)
Date: Sun May 31 2009 - 13:35:09 EDT


Eben King wrote:
> On Fri, 29 May 2009, Eben King wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 29 May 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:
>>
>>> Gentoo, in my experience, does everything the hard way. Ubuntu, on
>>> the other hand, has a lot of default handling built into the kernel.
>>> Or so they say, and I hope!
>>
>> There were two main ways of doing dual-headed configurations.
>> Xinerama, and some other method that hadn't been around as long.
>
> "Twinview"
>
>> I picked Xinerama -- even though it was harder to do -- in case the
>> other method turned out to be a flash in the pan. I didn't want to
>> risk ending up with an orphaned configuration.
>

Hi Eben!

Indeed. They say it is either or, at times I have tried to do both - I
have used this box with Gentoo (set up by a friend who had a devil of a
time), Mepis (which is easy but is not real compatible with a lot of
packages), Debian (which I couldn't get to work) and now Ubuntu (which
was working before I rebooted).

A decent time has elapsed for comments, I am going to try it tonight.

-- 
Regards,

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