[GTALUG] Xrandr problem

Scott Sullivan scott at ss.org
Tue Oct 7 01:11:00 UTC 2014


On 10/06/2014 09:09 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> On 10/01/2014 01:14 PM, o1bigtenor wrote:
>> I'm running nvidia graphics cards (2 connected to monitors) so its a
>> royal pain
>> but I'm running the nvidia drivers. Its not that easy to set up the
>> first time (I spent
>> a lot of time the first time) but now its a painful process but its
>> quite doable.
>
> Sounds like your doing multi-card, not specifically multi-monitor, am I
> mistaken?
>
> Xrandr works great for multi-monitor, but does indeed assume single
> card. The assumption is not Xrandr's fault,


support for multi-card been _has not been_ a target feature


> of Xorg to for the last decade. Multi-monitor single
> cards have been "good enough" for just as long.



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