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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