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 <h1>The multi-monitor situation</h1>
 <span id="author">Michael Stapelberg</span><br />
-<span id="email"><tt>&lt;<a href="mailto:michael+i3@stapelberg.de">michael+i3@stapelberg.de</a>&gt;</tt></span><br />
-<span id="revdate">March 2010</span>
+<span id="email"><tt>&lt;<a href="mailto:michael@i3wm.org">michael@i3wm.org</a>&gt;</tt></span><br />
+<span id="revdate">April 2013</span>
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-<div class="paragraph"><p>â¦or: oh no, I have an nVidia graphics card!</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>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.</p></div>
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 <h2 id="_the_quick_fix">1. The quick fix</h2>
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 <div class="paragraph"><p>If you are using the nVidia binary graphics driver (also known as <em>blob</em>)
-you need to use the <tt>--force-xinerama</tt> flag (in your .xsession) when starting
-i3, like so:</p></div>
+before version 302.17, you need to use the <tt>--force-xinerama</tt> flag (in your
+.xsession) when starting i3, like so:</p></div>
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 <div class="title">Example:</div>
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 <pre><tt>exec i3 --force-xinerama -V &gt;&gt;~/.i3/i3log 2&gt;&amp;1</tt></pre>
 </div></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>â¦or use <tt>force_xinerama yes</tt> in your configuration file.</p></div>
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@@ -86,9 +90,12 @@ actually contains both of your physical screens (but it will not know that
 these are two screens).</p></div>
 <div class="paragraph"><p>For this very reason, we decided to implement the following workaround: As
 long as the nVidia driver does not support RandR, an option called
-<tt>--force-xinerama</tt> is available in i3. This option gets the list of screens
-<strong>once</strong> when starting, and never updates it. As the nVidia driver cannot do
-dynamic configuration anyways, this is not a big deal.</p></div>
+<tt>--force-xinerama</tt> is available in i3 (alternatively, you can use the
+<tt>force_xinerama</tt> configuration file directive). This option gets the list of
+screens <strong>once</strong> when starting, and never updates it. As the nVidia driver cannot
+do dynamic configuration anyways, this is not a big deal.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Also note that your output names are not descriptive (like <tt>HDMI1</tt>) when using
+Xinerama, instead they are counted up, starting at 0: <tt>xinerama-0</tt>, <tt>xinerama-1</tt>, â¦</p></div>
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