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  • Dual Monitors Redux

    My trusty 1050×1680 portrait monitor began resetting itself, which probably indicates failing capacitors in the power supply or logic board; eBay has capacitor kits, but it may not be worthwhile fixing the poor thing. I snagged a new 2560×1440 Dell U2713HM monitor, added a dual-Displayport PNY NVS310 video card, told Xubuntu 14.04LTS to use nVidia’s binary driver, and, somewhat to my astonishment, It Just Worked.

    The xrandr report:

    Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 4000 x 2560, maximum 16384 x 16384
DP-0 disconnected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 connected 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
   2560x1440      60.0*+
   1920x1200      59.9
   1920x1080      60.0     59.9     50.0     24.0     60.1     60.0     50.0
   1680x1050      60.0
   1600x1200      60.0
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0
   1280x800       59.8
   1280x720       60.0     59.9     50.0
   1152x864       75.0
   1024x768       75.0     60.0
   800x600        75.0     60.3
   720x576        50.0     50.1
   720x480        59.9     60.1
   640x480        75.0     59.9     59.9
DP-3 connected 1440x2560+2560+0 left (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
   2560x1440      60.0*+
   1920x1200      59.9
   1920x1080      60.0     59.9     50.0     24.0     60.1     60.0     50.0
   1680x1050      60.0
   1600x1200      60.0
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0
   1280x800       59.8
   1280x720       60.0     59.9     50.0
   1152x864       75.0
   1024x768       75.0     60.0
   800x600        75.0     60.3
   720x576        50.0     50.1
   720x480        59.9     60.1
   640x480        75.0     59.9     59.9

    Inexplicably, xsetwacom once again expects the "HEAD-0" parameter that was "DP1" the last time around:

    xsetwacom --verbose set "Wacom Graphire3 6x8 stylus" MapToOutput "HEAD-0"
xsetwacom --verbose set "Wacom Graphire3 6x8 eraser" MapToOutput "HEAD-0"

    The new display presents crisp characters; seeing 140 source code lines at once is wonderful.