I've had LOTS of issues running 2 monitors. I've used NVIDIAS settings
tool which made enabling the both a snap but I couldn't have one with a
16/9 and another with 4/3 aspect ratio. So obviously, running a 16/9
1680x1050 monitor at 1280x1024 looked like garbage so I chucked the old
17 inch and went exclusively to this 22 inch @ 1680x1050.
Are both of your monitors the same aspect ratio? BTW, I didn't get the
screen saver to work either, I just set power management to power them
down after 11 minutes and it worked on both. I figured the LCD backlight
only has so many hours of life, your better off just to shut it off.
Eben King wrote:
> OK, my two monitors (one DVI, one VGA) work fine hanging off one card.
> Everything seems hunky-dory EXCEPT the left monitor (DVI, X monitor #1
> I think) doesn't participate in xscreensaver's displays. It goes black
> (and not a fade like the other one either) and stays that way. I've
> tried both Twinview alone, and with Xinerama added (I think that's
> what it is; nvidia-settings was involved), same deal.
> (Philosophically, I prefer Xinerama alone, because if I change video
> card brands, it still works.)
>
> I have "mode: random-same" in ~/.xscreensaver and xscreensaver(1) says:
>
> ,--
> | mode (class Mode)
> | Controls the behavior of xscreensaver. Legal values are:
> ...
> | random-same
> | Like random, but if there are multiple screens, each
> | screen will run the same random display mode, instead
> | of each screen running a different one.
> '--
>
> It doesn't do that. What did I do wrong?
>
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