From 114d7bf2625df290c6508de20aa4e08c21a146fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Stapelberg Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:49:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?docs/multi-monitor:=20nVidia=20=E2=89=A5=20302.?= =?UTF-8?q?17=20works=20just=20fine=20(Thanks=20HedgeMage)?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- docs/multi-monitor | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/multi-monitor b/docs/multi-monitor index a1fd6dc03..cafe56910 100644 --- a/docs/multi-monitor +++ b/docs/multi-monitor @@ -1,15 +1,16 @@ The multi-monitor situation =========================== -Michael Stapelberg -September 2011 +Michael Stapelberg +April 2013 -…or: oh no, I have an nVidia graphics card! +Please upgrade your nVidia driver to version 302.17 or newer and i3 will just +work. This document is kept around for historic reasons only. == The quick fix If you are using the nVidia binary graphics driver (also known as 'blob') -you need to use the +--force-xinerama+ flag (in your .xsession) when starting -i3, like so: +before version 302.17, you need to use the +--force-xinerama+ flag (in your +.xsession) when starting i3, like so: .Example: ----------------------------------------------