3 monitor setup - Sandy Bridge coexisting with an NVidia adapter?

3 monitor setup - Sandy Bridge coexisting with an NVidia adapter?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   We've been having some minor startup issues getting a 3 monitor
multi-head setup running where two digital monitors are driven by an
NVidia adapter and the 3rd analog monitor is driven by the VGA output
on a Z68/Sandy Bridge Asus motherboard.

   I just wanted to ensure that there aren't any known show stopper
issues with the Intel graphics drivers that would make this
impossible.

   We've had no problems with 2 head Intel and 2 head Nvidia. Just the
combination has us a bit flummoxed. I assume it's not working only
because I don't yet have everything correct in the xorg.conf file and
nothing serious about the drivers not supporting it.

   If it matters, we're using the monitors like

Left: Intel VGA
Middle: NVidia HDMI
Right: NVidia DVI

Thanks,
Mark

Re: 3 monitor setup - Sandy Bridge coexisting with an NVidia adapter?

[tino.keitel+xorg]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:16:58 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    We've been having some minor startup issues getting a 3 monitor
> multi-head setup running where two digital monitors are driven by an
> NVidia adapter and the 3rd analog monitor is driven by the VGA output
> on a Z68/Sandy Bridge Asus motherboard.

AFAIK you need to use the open source NVidia driver for this (nouveau).

Regards,
Tino