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Sadly, the story is not over. After loving the new setup, and even getting Portal through Steam, via Wine to 'mostly' work across all 3 monitors (quite epic, though colors were all screwy, making parts difficult to see properly, but everything else worked perfectly, so there's hope of fixing it with tweaks, or a new Wine release), I returned the following night (tonight as I type this) to a system I couldn't boot up, again.
It turned out to be the same error as several nights prior: It will show up on one screen through the analog VGA connection, but remains black through the DVI cable, whether alone, or through the Matrox TripleHead2Go. I'm going to be asking my nerdy friends, and the Linux/Ubuntu/Nvidia/Matrox forums for help in working through this. I don't just want a 'fix,' 'hack,' or 'patch.' I want to understand what's wrong, so I can better fix things on my own the next time, and even help others with their problems.
The Linux Box Built From Scratch feat. 3 Displays Saga continues...
Installed first, then Windows, which overwrote boot sector. Had to reinstall Grub 2 to dual boot. Partitioning drives was trickiest part. The Linux tool was better than the Windows one.
Full spec as of August 2014:
CM Storm Stryker case and Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H mobo fitted with a Zotac GTX780 AMP! 3GB GPU, 4x4GB Vengeance RAM, and a Core i5 4670K which has been overclocked to run at 4.9 (now rolled back to 4.7) cooled by a Corsair H80i.
Crucial 120GB ssd for OS, Corsair Force LX 256GB ssd for games and a 1TB spinner for the rest. PSU currently is a Corsair CX600 but looking to replace it with a white Super Flower Leadex Platinum. Bit Fenix Alchemy blue braided cables and NZXT LEDs for that finishing touch.
Standard setup, pushed back a bit to give a tiny bit of shelf space in front of the monitors. I couldn't really get the front monitor to back farther, but interestingly, it can be pulled all the way out to the front edge of the main desk area. It has something like 2' of total front/back freedom of movement.
Not high end (have to cut costs somewhere), and not SLI yet, but better than the old PC (7.4 out of 7.9 says Windows 7), very stable and quiet, and not too expensive to upgrade.
This was the very last build I assembled. Completed on April 12th 2020, for one of my best friends. It doesn't show much of the build itself, but I really liked this picture. I have pictures of all my builds, but only three of them with my Nikon. Shot on my 24-50mm so it lacks the sharpness i desire, nonetheless i still like the picture
Taking a break from work on the new PC build, I set up the monitors on their Ergotron LX arms, which are all desk-mounted to the monitor shelf, the front edge of which they're hovering over here. I won't likely ever have them in a 'wall' like this, but I was curious to see it. They're about 50" wide total, or about 4' at the outermost screen edges. The monitors themselves protrude just a bit past the desk edges when arrayed like this.