[Mageia-discuss] Dual Monitors

Liam R E Quin liam at holoweb.net
Thu Dec 29 23:34:25 CET 2011


On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 16:14 +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> On 27.12.2011 23:48, TJ wrote:
[...]
> > My nephew has a spare 19-inch flatscreen monitor,[...]

> connecting this to the D-sub port of the
> > card as the second monitor, but in portrait mode.

> > 1. Is this possible in Mageia?
> Yes.
> 
> However, rotating individual displays with the proprietary driver only
> works when the displays are set as independent screens.

In addition you may find you don't get any acceleration, making even
window-dragging a little slow and painful. Or that's what I found using
the 'DisplayPort" connector of my laptop, with an nvidia Quadro FX 880M.

Also, neither that nor the ATI radion X1300 card in my desktop detected
when I rotated the monitor in Linux, or if they did (more likely), they
didn't act on it.

Liam

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