<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Richard<br><br>I googled "dual video card" Ubuntu; here is one hit:<br><br><a href="http://www.lockergnome.com/linux/2007/06/18/dual-monitors-with-ubuntu/">http://www.lockergnome.com/linux/2007/06/18/dual-monitors-with-ubuntu/</a><br><br>I hope that this helps.<br><br>John<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="intro">We act as though comfort and luxury<br>were the chief requirements of life,<br>when all that we need to make us happy<br>is something to be enthusiastic about.<br>—Einstein<br></span>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>==================================<br>John Eddie Kerr | Guelph, Ontario <br>==================================<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 1/6/10,
Richard Weait <i><richard@weait.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Richard Weait <richard@weait.com><br>Subject: [kwlug-disc] adding a second video card<br>To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br>Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 8:45 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">So what's the deal?<br><br>Back in the good old days, I could add another video card to my<br>working xorg.conf by adding a few extra sections. The working section<br>would keep working and I could keep tweaking until the new stuff<br>worked.<br><br>That isn't the case since xrandr and bulletproof x kicked in a year or<br>so back.<br><br>Now, xrandr auto detects and configures the first card it finds, then<br>ignores the rest. As far as I can tell xrandr will not allow more<br>than one video card. Or more than two monitors. Or more
than<br>2048x2048 display area.<br><br>I'd like to avoid jumping back to an old distro before xrandr.<br>I'd like to add a second video card without messing up the current<br>config (it's my main machine)<br>And I'd prefer to stay with FLOSS drivers rather than proprietary blobs.<br><br>Any ideas?<br><br>Failing all of this, any recommendations for a quad head video card<br>supported under FLOSS drivers?<br><br>Best regards,<br>Richard<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc_kwlug.org mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org" href="/mc/compose?to=kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>