Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Ibext Dualhead Goodness

So I upgraded my work laptop to Ibex this last weekend. It was just something I wanted to do even though I didn't use it much. I then had a reason to boot into it at work where my 22" ViewSonic has me loving the dual head goodness. With Hardy, it wouldn't load at the right res, and it would look all faded. I was super suprised when GDM loaded up right out of the box with mirrored displays in what appeared to be the right res. I logged in, went in to the Screen Res preferences and undid the mirror setting, and voila I had both LCD's running natively. I've been in Ubuntu allot the last two days, and all looks good. The last thing to do is to get the newest driver running with all the accell as some of the rendering is a bit choppy. I'm also tempted to redo this setup to 64bit since it's currently 32bit. I don't know if I can really give that a go yet, but I'm pretty stoked that Ibex got that working. Looks like it's worth it if you want dual head.