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Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors

From Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors
Date 2015-11-25 21:30 +0100
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On Wednesday 25 November 2015 20:14:04 Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> Pretty Please,
> tell me this isn't true:
> The only sensible answer I got from debian list boils down to: "use
> proprietary driver".
>
> This is truly sad, especially since I *know* Linux Mint (which is a debian
> derivative, through ubuntu parentage) does indeed work out-of-the-box with
> *no* configuration at all.

Presumably with a proprietary driver.  Mint makes no claims to be entirely 
Free.

Lisi
>
> A desolate
> Mauro
>
> Il 23/11/2015 14:40, Ric Moore ha scritto:
> > On 11/22/2015 10:44 AM, Mauro Condarelli wrote:
> >> Thanks Ric,
> >> care to share details on how You managed such a marvel?
> >> How did You disable the internal (intel) "video card" (actually inside
> >> the CPU chip)? From BIOS?
> >> What other configuration did You do?
> >
> > I just disabled the video feature in the bios. Then I loaded the nvidia
> > driver. Then I used nvidia-settings to use xinerama and to configure the
> > order of the monitors. When you "save to X configuration file", save it
> > in your home directory as you are "user" and not able to save directly to
> > /etc/X11. Open a terminal and "sudo cp xorg.conf /etc/X11" to put it
> > there. If you have monitors of differing size, the X Server Display
> > Configuration will allow you to play tricks, like panning to a smaller
> > screen to be bigger through scrolling. Slick! Ric

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Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-22 12:50 +0100
  Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-11-22 13:10 +0100
    Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-22 13:50 +0100
      Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-11-22 14:10 +0100
        Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-22 15:00 +0100
        Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-23 00:20 +0100
          Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-11-23 00:40 +0100
            Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-11-23 01:30 +0100
          Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2015-11-23 00:40 +0100
            Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-11-23 00:50 +0100
              Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-11-23 01:30 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-11-23 02:10 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-23 05:30 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-11-23 05:40 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-23 06:10 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2015-11-23 08:40 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-23 09:50 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-23 10:20 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org> - 2015-11-23 15:40 +0100
          Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2015-11-23 15:50 +0100
    Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 16:30 +0100
      Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-22 16:50 +0100
        Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 14:50 +0100
          Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-25 21:20 +0100
            Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 21:30 +0100
              Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-25 22:20 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Catalin Soare <lolinux.soare@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 22:30 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-25 23:00 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Catalin Soare <lolinux.soare@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 23:10 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-25 23:30 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors "John L. Ries" <jries@salford-systems.com> - 2015-11-25 23:30 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 00:00 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-26 00:20 +0100
            Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 22:40 +0100
              Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-25 23:40 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 01:40 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-11-26 02:10 +0100
                Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-27 10:00 +0100
              Re: Debian seems unable to drive my (4) monitors Mauro Condarelli <mc5686@mclink.it> - 2015-11-25 23:50 +0100

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