In December I bought this brand new laptop and had the perfect excuse to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10. Like I mentioned in this post, the video drivers were the only issue I had.
Nvidia released new drivers for Linux 64 (v. 190.53) so I took the chance to update and plug an old 19” monitor to my laptop. To enable TwinView I muddled through some documentation but finally made it work.
Here’s the code from xorg.conf that enables TwinView:
Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0, CRT-0" Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select, CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select" Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/path/edid/monitor1.bin; CRT-0:/path/edid/monitor2.bin" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0,CRT-0" Option "TwinViewOrientation" "DFP-0 LeftOf CRT-0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
I had to add the binary EDID files because the X server was unable to identify the correct resolution for my laptop: 1366×768. The second monitor is 1280×1024… now I’m really seduced by a 27” monitor.