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#1 2009-12-21 22:18:59

cosmo
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Registered: 2007-05-21
Posts: 14

change display to extra screen only

Hi,

I've got an HDMI output on my laptop, and a extra full HD monitor.

Ideally I'd like to be able to watch easily videos on my monitor, plugged in on my laptop. It has an nvidia ion video card.

So I tried with nvidia-settings with twinview. The problem is I get tearing on this extra screen. I read this is because of twinview, and the refreshing rate, the second monitor not the main monitor etc.

I have to say that I don't have tearing on an normal case (without dual screen).

So now I wonder if this is possible to not have a dual screen, but a "mono screen" only on my extra monitor (and the internal laptop monitor shutdown maybe). This would (I hope) prevent the tearing problem.


But how to ??

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#2 2010-01-17 20:17:38

SantaSCSI
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Registered: 2009-12-04
Posts: 20

Re: change display to extra screen only

I use a setup like that at home. First you need to enable the TFT as twinview and then disalb ethe laptop screen. You will then use only the TFT screen.

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#3 2010-01-18 17:11:10

ctrler
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From: Vila do Conde, Portugal
Registered: 2006-09-07
Posts: 15
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Re: change display to extra screen only

I use two separate screens (no twinview) with nvidia.
I get two independent desktops and I can't drag and drop between them but I don't get any tearing.

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