Dual monitors in F9 ?

stan goedigi89__e at cox.net
Tue Jun 10 18:17:42 UTC 2008


linuxguy wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 07:49 -0500, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
>   
>> linuxguy wrote:
>>     
>>> Has anyone gotten dual monitors to work in F9 with Nvidia ?
>>>
>>> I've go the latest Livna Nvidia packages installed.   Xorg works OK with
>>> a single monitor, but it hangs when I start X with 2 connected.   Any
>>> idea ?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>       
>> I used the kmod packages from Livna and have a dual head setup working 
>> just fine at home.  Did you run the nvidia-xconfig utility?  That seemed 
>> to do the trick for me without any manual tweaking needed.
>>     
>
> I got my dual monitor setup working with nvidia this morning.
>
> I used the current kmod packages from livna.
>
> I tried using the nvidia-xconfig utility.   For some reason the file it
> generated wouldn't run.   I didn't spend much time looking into it.   I
> suspect it had to do with the fact that it generated 2 "screen0"
> elements.   I am using a laptop and a monitor and I think that confuses
> it. 
>
> What did work, however, is the tried and true xorg.conf that I hand
> wrote way back in fc3.  I copied it into the current xorg.conf file and
> now I have dual monitors again.
>
> LG
>
>   
Could you post your working xorg.conf?  Might help future searchers for 
solution.




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