Since I had a NVIDIA GeForce 2 I m using two or more screens with my PC. Some years ago I switched to Ubuntu and hoped the twinview problems will go away by time. But nothing happened and now I m reporting them as a bug.
I user 2 graphics cards in my PC, a GeForce 8600GT and a 7600GT. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, the processor a AMD Athlon X2 5200+ EE. The 8600GT is the primary card on the upper PCIe slot. I m running Ubuntu Karmic Koala now.
It would be perfect to use all 3 screens together as one big screen with 3D support and windows maximize on the screen they are on. Ok this is not possible in Linux now, Twinview works only on one card and Xinerama doesnt have 3D support. So it would be also fine for me if the two screens on the first card work in twinview together and the 3. screen on the second card works as an own XServer. This is possible for long time now and I am happy about, but windows dont maximize like i want them to do if I activate all 3 screens. When I use my Twinview + 1 screen configuration, the primary screen settings will be ignored, the panels are on both screens and windows maximize over both. Also flash videos are on both screens. When I use Twinview on the first card alone, the windows maximazie like I want, but youtube/flash fullscreen videos open allways on the left screen. Fullscreen applications appear mostly on the left screen, anyway I set the right one as primary. When they appear on the right screen, I see only one half of the application. As I read in some threads I m not the only person with this problem, but I didnt find it here. I feel a bit despaired about this problem.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 1 21:35:55 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:c30e Logitech, Inc. UltraX Keyboard (Y-BL49)
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04b8:010f Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1250
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c01e Logitech, Inc. MX518 Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-glx-185 185.18.36-0ubuntu9
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae root=UUID=7e99c4ca-b694-44e8-84c7-3e5e0c9bd0c7 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686
dmi.bios.date: 03/07/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: FG
dmi.board.name: M57SLI-S4
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFG:bd03/07/2008:svn:pn:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnM57SLI-S4:rvrx.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic-pae
The behaviour of youtube is strange in twinview all the time. I m useing the nonfree flash plugin from ubuntu.
Here are some screenshots of twinview only with the the right screen as pimary.