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Multi Monitor Build Help

Hey everyone I am planning a 5 monitor build (3 landscape, 2 portrait) and I would like to know what utilities I would need to have/run with a few different distros. They are...

- BackTrack 5 r3
- Crunchbang 10 and..
- Slackware 13.37

I would like to enable multi monitor support for each of these distros seeing as I am going to multiboot with them as well as windows.

Also, if I press CTRL + ALT + F1,F2,F3,...,F6 is there any way I could have each monitor in console mode with any distro? If so how would I go about switching through each session?

Hi, this depends on your graphics card and configuration. Please post output of

Code:

hwinfo --gfxcard

and

Code:

lspci

.

I have an Intel graphics card in my laptop, and use arandr (GUI for xrandr) to manipulate screens. Arandr can export an Xrandr script for use at startup, when you are satisfied with your configuration. If this does not work, you should use xorg.conf (I find this difficult) to set up your screens.

If you have Nvidia with proprietary drivers, you can use the Nvidia control panel to set up your screens, almost like you would with arandr. This control panel saves the desired settings to xorg.conf for you.