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Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the 32.174-ft/s^2 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I'm an Engineer with a need for 3 large monitors on the one PC. I want to run them as 'one big desktop' so I can drag windows around between all three monitors (Windows XP style). I run Debian and an nVidia NVS450. Currently I have been able to do what I want by using Xinerama which is painfully slow (think 1990s), or using TwinView which is hardware accelerated but only supports 2 monitors. I can live without 3D performance, but I need a hardware accelerated 2D desktop at the minimum. What are my options? I will happily give up running X and run something else if I need to (although I would like to keep using Xfce — but am open to anything). I am getting so desperate that I am starting to think of running Windows on my box, but that would be painful in so many other ways given my work environment revolves around the Linux toolset."

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  1. Re:Multi-Monitor Support in 2013?!? by Zeussy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm confused by this. I have 7 monitors on one machine, 3 connected to an AMD Radeon, the other 4 connected to a Nvidia Geforce (using a matrox triple head 2 go, to make 3 appear as 1 monitor to the card). And it all works seamlessly. Even have 3d applications/meda players spanning across them and it works. (Not quite sure how the 3D side of things work, backbuffer from one copied to the other?)

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  2. Re:Multi-Monitor Support in 2013?!? by Tripkipke · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It can...

  3. Re:Get a Mac, it just works ... by Midnight_Falcon · · Score: 1, Interesting

    build a hackintosh. for $1k-$3k you can have 4 monitor support and OS X :)