[Solved] Nividia Twinview Problem?

Marcel Rieux m.z.rieux at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 00:19:54 UTC 2010


Twinview just doesn't work. Try as you might, at least if you use
Linux and two screens of different aspect ratios, you're losing your
time. Does it work with Windows or screens of the same aspect ratio, I
have no idea. But the net is literally flooded with questions and no
answer is offered.

 Oh, you will find lots of "Why don't you try this and that", but
nothing works... except 2 separate X screens.

To face this situation, NVIDIA has a very simple solution: they offer
NO support on their defective product. On Nvidia's forums. you're told
that the real support forum is nvnews, which is maintained by an
aficionado and paid for by advertising. The newbies there do their
best there but, when there's no answer, there's no answer. And that's
just what I got.

So you go back to Nvidia's forums. After making long exposés with
error messages on the situation, you boil down your question to it's
simplest expression --  How do achieve the simplest configuration? --
but nobody answers. You ask that the question be transferred to
Nvidia's programmers, you're returned to the forum where nobody
answered. There is no way to contact company support.

Rest assured that those forums have nothing to do with Forums like
Fedora's. Here, you usually get an answer and, if you don't, 2 days
later, there's an upgarde and, mysteriously, everything starts
working. :)

Now, at least, 2 X screens work, but I still have no sound. There's
more than 42,000 posts posts about "nvidia hdmi and "no sound" OR "not
working" sound". But this will the the subject of another post.

The cost of an Nvidia card is not the price you pay, but the time an
"I don't care company" will make you lose. At minimum wage, it's at
least ten times the price of the card.


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