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Originally posted by AJenbo View PostThe only down side I see is print screen would have to stitch together the frame bufferers in to a single image.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostMulti-monitor setups are, IMO, only good if you have a low-wattage GPU with non-gaming purposes in mind, or, if you have a rig strictly used for gaming and nothing else. I have 2 HD5750s in crossfire and I was amazed how much heat the primary GPU generated when not doing anything graphically intensive. In this particular GPU anyway, it has 7 different clock settings in it's BIOS. I tried underclocking the settings that seemed to be linked specifically to multi-monitors and surprisingly, just a 100mhz difference in the memory can make the 2nd display unstable. Windows didn't seem to care as much about re-clocking. I'm guessing if I want to try multi-monitor again, I'm going to have to either ditch KDE for something not composited, or, hope that mir or wayland will allow me to reclock my GPU. Considering the relationship between KDE and mir, that reduces my options.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostI'm 90% sure nvidia suffers from the same problem. Any GPU will need to clock itself higher to drive more displays.
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Originally posted by johnc View PostI have two displays running on the Unity desktop and my GTX 570 downclocks to 50/135/101 MHz graphics / memory / processor clocks. Maybe it's different for a CF / SLI setup though.
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Originally posted by AJenbo View Postas mentioned i get the same bad result with GT210 as HD5xxx, so Nvidia isn't a magic bullet. At home though with, smaller monitors, things works grate on my GTX460se. My laptop with HD6370m also works grate with two monitors.
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Originally posted by dh04000I hope to see this done well. I haven't had a positive multi-desktop experience in linux on any of the DE's on any distros.
Originally posted by Ericg View PostThats X's fault. Granted libkscreen aims to fix that. Give KDE 4.11 a try when it comes out, or the latest release of Fedora KDE (they shipped it ahead of time)
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