Ubuntu 9.04 64BIT Jaunty Jackalope 6 Monitors + Win Apps

This was a quick video we took to see how Ubuntu 9.04 64BIT performed with the following open:
- 20 Firefox Windows - Open websites include: ubunut.com, cnn.com, cnbc.com, foxnews.com, bbc.com, msnbc.com, youtube.com, yahoo.com, a Zimbra Ajax webmail system, and any remaining windows were fullscreen and open to google advanced search.
- A windows XP Vmware Workstation Virtual Machine running in Unity mode with the following applications open: Microsoft Word to a new blank document, Microsoft Publisher with a full page document opened, Internet Explorer 7 with a HD youtube video playing with sound.
- Other Ubuntu / Linux Applications open / loaded include: KDE 4.2.2, Konsole, Gnome-DO, Beagle, aMSN w/ chat window open, 3 sep panel's across bottom of lower screens, 2 Dolphin sessions, and system monitor.
- And just for the heck of it - Kung Fu Panda playing at DVD resolution using VLC from a NFS share on the network.

All this and all 4 CPU's were below 50% usage average or less, and memory usage was 1.6GB average or less outa 8GB. Go Ubuntu and say goodbye to Windows forever!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Ubuntu
• 9.04
• Jaunty
• Jackalope
• 64BIT
• Dual
• Monitor
• Multiple
• Nvidia
• Virtualization
• Windows
• Apps

[jackatube]

Can this be done on Ubuntu 11? I am driving myself insane. Can't find any site where it explains if and how to do it. I can get it working with xinerama but performance sucks - massive flicker when moving windows across screens and lots of ugly stuff. Please somebody point me in the right direction.

[d2globalinc]

@jackatube I don't think nvidia's drivers enable this feature using two video cards. I switched to ATI/AMD using eyefinity which is built into their drivers to support this. With the eyefinity 6 cards I can power 6 monitors using a single video card, and probably 12 using two video cards.

[d2globalinc]

@jackatube On another note, this was done using xserver-XGL which is no longer maintained and was basicly a software driven 3d environment. This worked well on this quad core machine at the time, but since then there have been many changes to the xorg/xserver and I have not re-visited this in an attempt to get it to work again. Ubuntu Jaunty was as far as I was able to get this to work on.. You may want to check the thread in the ubuntu forums to see the latest info.

[D4ftPunk3r]

aewsome work man!!!

may I ask you how much stable is this setting (without eyefinity)? How hard was to make it work? Which videocards did you use? I've tried getting 3 screens to work on 9.04 but failed cause xinerama just hanged my X session.

[d2globalinc]

@D4ftPunk3r This configuration was very stable with 9.04 and Xserver-XGL - I think it had a lot to do with having enough memory (8gb) and quad cores - it was a great setup, fast, stable, flash 64bit even worked great once pulse audio was configured correctly. For information on how to setup this configuration check the ubuntu forums and search for 6 monitors - there is a very long thread there detailing everything. All the information you need can be found there.

[D4ftPunk3r]

Nice man, gotta check it out on ubuntu forums. Have you tried this same setting on 9.10?

thanks for the info!

[d2globalinc]

@D4ftPunk3r Myself and others have also got the same method to work with 9.10 - those instructions are also in the thread. Good luck!

[circutracer150]

PLEASE say you are going to do a how to vid man.. PLEASE!

You CANNOT tease us with tech porn like this and NOT share your wisdom!!!!

[Ubuntu1user1jb]

awsome

[DXman099]

@d2globalinc Holy shit, i just thought of the 12 monitors. Thanks for the idea.

[paratout]

WTF v_v ...

[caiolagana]

just amazing, congratulations!!

which video card are you using? AMD/ATI 5000 series?

I'm about to get an AMD Radeon HD 5750 to run 3 monitors with Ubuntu, searching a lot at Ubuntu forums about this but information seems to contradict... Do you think the AMD drivers will work well (with eyefinity) in Ubuntu?

thanks

[ScrapeNow]

I would be so productive with 6 monitors

[ubudog32]

EPIC

[islouma]

Aaaaaaa3 n7eb na3mel haka :'(

[EnavSounds]

i only have 3 displays... actually ubuntu is not suporting the whole virtual destop