Have you been infuriated by Natty Narwhal’s poor/broken support for multiple monitors (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6)? Do you believe that your CPU or GPU cycles should be used to actually do stuff, instead of making a window wobble and speeding the approach of thermodynamic equilibrium? Do you hate Unity anyway? Did you buy dual GTS 450’s to drive 4 monitors instead of 1?
It turns out the fix is pretty easy – just use the Ubuntu Classic (no effects) session. You can set this either on login, or even better, by changing the default under System -> Administration -> Login Screen. Here’s to hoping the Ubuntu developers don’t go too crazy for 11.10/12.04 – or, worst case, that RHEL offers a deal on single seat licenses.
Just use Debian?
This is not an easy fix. It does not work for me. I am trying to run three monitors off a single card (ATI FirePro Multi-View 2450) Which IS supported under the open-source radeon drivers, but have yet to find a solution. I have been tinkering with my xorg.conf file to no avail (so far). The card is essentially quad-head, with two heads on the card that each connect to a dual-DVI splitter. The two monitors I have on the first splitter work fine. It’s the third that just sits there with a blank screen. It is apparently recognizing a signal because it is on, but seems to be stuck in standby. I’d love to hear any thoughts you may have.
Hey Chris,
I don’t have much experience with recent ATI cards (last shop with multi-monitor workstations I worked at switched to all-NV on Linux around 2007). If I had to guess, your best shot might actually be to run a pre-Unity distribution and look around at older Multi-View configs. Good luck with it.
Really nice, Thanks for this.