Re: [Hampshire] What Graphics Card?

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Author: Jack Knight
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] What Graphics Card?
On 9 February 2013 13:13, Michael Daffin <james1479@???> wrote:

> If you are using the open drivers then neither ati or nvidia have problems
> with dual screen. But then game performance might suffer.
>
> The property nvidia drivers work well with dual screen here, no
> configuration is needed any more except switching the displays around and
> nvidia now supports the randr protocol so you can do this from the normal
> desktop utilities for your de rather than the nvidia utilities.
>
> It might also be worth noting that nvidia driver are improving quite allot
> of late partly thanks to valve working with nvidia to improve them.
>


Ahh, that explains a lot - last time I looked (admittedly way back last
year) the lack of randr support was a clincher for me.
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