Over and over, I hear people asking me “how do I get dual monitors working in Ubuntu“. Well today, I will show you (note the video) how to make this easy with a fairly modern NVIDIA card, two flat screen LCDs (one DVI, the other VGA) and a little understanding how getting two monitors working in Ubuntu Linux is a snap, once you understand the basics.
What you will need for this:
- NVIDIA based video card that supports dual monitors.
- Based on most video cards, one DVI monitor and one VGA – in my case, my LCDs meet these needs. Dual DVI might work too, have not tried it.
Download full size Quicktime video here
(Sorry about the video cropping, Hipcast did a little size trimming)
Before getting too far ahead of ourselves though, you will want to install the envy_0.9.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb package and download this script (right-click, save as) to your desktop as well. The reason for the little bash script is that changes made to nvidia-settings will not keep, without first running as sudo.
[tags]video card,LCD monitor, dual monitors[/tags]