Xinerama with nvidia driver, Ubuntu 10.04

**snowmanwithahat** · 10-05-10, 12:12 AM

So I have 2 video cards.... I wanted each monitor (2, 22" monitors) hooked up to each video card so that it doesn't push any single card into a non-low power state, making it very loud and hot (this gtx 470 is ridiculous for that...)

I'm having issues though, whenever I enable Xinerama in the nvidia driver it just loops when it tries to start the xserver, apparently crashing. Any advice?

... also, I was un aware that nvnews was the "official" Linux support forum.... go US!

10-05-10, 12:12 AM	#1
snowmanwithahat Snowy Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Michigan Posts: 973	Xinerama with nvidia driver, Ubuntu 10.04 So I have 2 video cards.... I wanted each monitor (2, 22" monitors) hooked up to each video card so that it doesn't push any single card into a non-low power state, making it very loud and hot (this gtx 470 is ridiculous for that...) I'm having issues though, whenever I enable Xinerama in the nvidia driver it just loops when it tries to start the xserver, apparently crashing. Any advice? ... also, I was un aware that nvnews was the "official" Linux support forum.... go US! __________________ ---Gaming Rig--- Q6600 3.4ghz (378x9) - 1.5v Gigabyte EP45-UD3P 8gb (4x2gb) OCZ Gold DDR2-800 (5-4-4-12) MSI+ASUS GTX 470 SLI Dell u3011 IPS Display HP 22" Auxiliary Monitor 256gb Western Digital Silicon Edge Blue SSD 5x2tb RAID-5 Array 750W PC P&C PSU Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit & Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit ---Gaming Laptop--- ASUS G53JW Core i7 740QM 16gb DDR3 Nvidia GTX 460m 1tb WD HDD 120gb Corsair SSD Join the NvNews Folding @ Home Team