xorg config files

Dual Monitor

See this nvidia page for details.

Introduction

-----------------------       -----------------------------
| screen 1 (external) |       | screen 0 (laptop default) |
|   device: "nvidia"  | <---- |   device: "intel"         |
|     driver: nvidia  |       |     driver: intel         |
-----------------------       -----------------------------
          | |                 /++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\
         =====                ------------------------------

1. Run startx, only the external monitor will be activated by default.
2. Then execute xrandr script below, the laptop default monitor will be activated.

Two monitor will share one screen, where you can drag windows between.

Code

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout"
    Screen 0 "nvidia"
    Inactive "intel"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Driver "nvidia"
    BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    Device "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "intel"
    Driver "intel"
    BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
    Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "intel"
    Device "intel"
EndSection

xrandr script (example):

xrandr --setprovideroutputsource Intel NVIDIA-0
xrandr --output eDP1 --auto --output DP-0 --left-of eDP1

Further more

• DRM kernel mode setting
• Extreme_Multihead