Ubuntu Edgy Eft & NVidia Twin view

Posted by Wim Koorenneef on 2006-10-29 20:21 CET

Ubuntu Edgy Eft was released last week. I installed it om my main desktop box and decided to give Nvidia's Twin view a try. I bought a cheap NVidia FX 5200 a few month back for testing Compiz/Beryl (looks great). Turns out that a small adjustment in xorg.conf does the trick. I added the following three line to the Device section:

Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024"


Here's the mandatory screenshot. In case you're wondering, i'm using two Samsung SyncMaster 930BF monitors. So my screen real estate doubled to 2560x1024 :-)