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[Mastermolch <molchx@xxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Since I had a NVIDIA GeForce 2 I m using two or more screens with my PC. Some years ago I switched to Ubuntu and hoped the twinview problems will go away by time. But nothing happened and now I m reporting them as a bug.
I user 2 graphics cards in my PC, a GeForce 8600GT and a 7600GT. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, the processor a AMD Athlon X2 5200+ EE. The 8600GT is the primary card on the upper PCIe slot. I m running Ubuntu Karmic Koala now.

It would be perfect to use all 3 screens together as one big screen with
3D support and windows maximize on the screen they are on. Ok this is
not possible in Linux now, Twinview works only on one card and Xinerama
doesnt have 3D support. So it would be also fine for me if the two
screens on the first card work in twinview together and the 3. screen on
the second card works as an own XServer. This is possible for long time
now and I am happy about, but windows dont maximize like i want them to
do if I activate all 3 screens. When I use my Twinview + 1 screen
configuration, the primary screen settings will be ignored, the panels
are on both screens and windows maximize over both. Also flash videos
are on both screens. When I use Twinview on the first card alone, the
windows maximazie like I want, but youtube/flash fullscreen videos open
allways on the left screen. Fullscreen applications appear mostly on the
left screen, anyway I set the right one as primary. When they appear on
the right screen, I see only one half of the application. As I read in
some threads I m not the only person with this problem, but I didnt find
it here. I feel a bit despaired about this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov  1 21:35:55 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:c30e Logitech, Inc. UltraX Keyboard (Y-BL49)
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04b8:010f Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1250
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c01e Logitech, Inc. MX518 Optical Mouse
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-glx-185 185.18.36-0ubuntu9
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic-pae root=UUID=7e99c4ca-b694-44e8-84c7-3e5e0c9bd0c7 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686
dmi.bios.date: 03/07/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: FG
dmi.board.name: M57SLI-S4
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFG:bd03/07/2008:svn:pn:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnM57SLI-S4:rvrx.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 architecture:       i686kernel:             2.6.31-14-generic-pae

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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3 Screens with 2 NVIDIA graphics cards and Ubuntu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469475
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