On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
>> I think I had to resort to Envy to get the DVR displaying on the TV.
>>
>>> I think the next time I "monitor shop" I will get a big widescreen with as
>>> much area on one screen as these two 17" Compaq FP7317 that I have had for
>>> years have.
>>
>> What are the 17s? 1280x1024? That's 1 310 720 each, or 2 621 440 for
>> both. One 1680x1050 is 1 764 000, around 1/3 less. So I dunno about your
>> plan.
>
> You loose almost a third in the (annoying) gap, plus the one widescreen will
> be cheaper than two 17s or whatever.
Presumably you already _have_ the two 17s, so their cost is $0. If you were
buying from scratch, sure.
> Not only that, you could use whatever video card or even the motherboard
> video. That would not be as exotic or finicky as nVidia.
Ditto. I disagree with the characterization of Nvidia as "exotic".
"Finicky", sure.
Plus your 17s likely aren't parallel, but curved in such a manner as to be
approximately equidistant from your eyes, each perpendicular to your line of
sight at its center. A single monitor would of course be flat and rigid.
> When I did this, they didn't have widescreens.
When I got my first one, likewise. And since my old CRT ran at 1536x1152
and I didn't want to go down, that put a rather severe lower bound on
possible resolutions for me. When I cleared off the desk enough I got a
second monitor but by then 4:3 LCD screens were hard to find.
>>> My buddy set them up for me once upon a time in Gentoo as well. It took
>>> him weeks and weeks and *he* knows what he is doing.
>>
>> It took me a while to get these two (same res, same size, different brands)
>> working in Ubuntu also. I mean, if I did it the quick-and-dirty way it was
>> much easier, but that way's non-portable. So if I changed distros I'd have
>> to do it all again.
>
> When I came from MEPIS there was no mention of a possibility of saving
> settings, although everything was working perfectly. Where do you find
> portability?
In the method of specifying the two screens' relationship to each other.
Default is Twinview, but Xinerama has wider support and works with
non-Nvidia cards.
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