NVIDIA and display cloning
by Felix Kaechele on Jul.07, 2009, under Fedora Planet, Linux
I always wondered why there is no easy way to clone my display to the VGA output of my ThinkPad T61p. I thought I found the solution in the fact that NVIDIA just sucks on Linux (well, they break my suspend/resume every other update). However a few weeks ago I found a script that simplifies the whole process. It is called Disper and can be downloaded here. In conjunction with the Thinkpad Screen script I can finally just Fn-F7 and use my Projector/DFP-Screen.
I also made a RPM of disper for the lazy:
August 4th, 2009 on 5:22 pm
hi,
thanks for the rpm, I’ve rebuild for fedora 10 and commented nvidia-settings dependency (I’ve installed nvidia driver with the nvidia installer).
Disper seems to start, perhaps I’ve not an external monitor to test now…