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I have been playing with an excellent monitoring tool Munin. Since I had some glitches while trying to install it on my server a have decided to update my Wiki a little bit and add a tutorial about setting up Munin on Debian Lenny. It is quite late and I do not feel like proofreading this entry right now so you will have to forgive me if I forgot something.

Setting up multiple monitors under Linux can sometimes be quite a daunting task. TwinView, Xinerama, restricted drivers, editing configuration files, etc. doesn’t sound user friendly at all.

After you install Ubuntu and boot it the first time, you will get a notification in the tray asking you if you would like to install nVidia restricted drivers. They don’t get installed by default because the source code for this drivers isn’t open source. Since we don’t care about that, and just want the damn thing to work install the drivers. Read the rest of this entry »