Problem with NVidia card and dual display in FC 3

[Kenny Gow]

Chamil Thanthrimudalige wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I submited this to the fedora-desktop-list and was instructed to ask
> here. So I just subscribed to this list.
> 
> I installed a fresh copy of FC3 on my machine. The default nv drivers
> work fine. But I can't get dual head working with nv drivers by
> editing xorg.conf.  "system-config-display" does not do any thing when
> I select "Use dual head" and click ok. Then I cancel to go out of the
> screen.
> 
> So I do a init 3 install the NVidia drivers from the site. Change
> xorg.conf and then do a init 5 and my dual display works fine. But
> when I reboot the system it does not work. With out the intial
> graphical part I can go upto the login screen and then when X starts
> it says that displays were found but non have a usable configuration.
> 
> Please note that I can use the below configuration file and work on
> the system with out rebooting after the instalation of the drivers
> from the NVidia site.
> 
> My Card is Asus V9400 Gamer Edition which used NVidia "MX 4000" GPU.
> 
> My xorg.conf is as below.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Chamil Thanthrimudalige.
> 

Have you installed all updates for FC3, especially udev?
See here:  http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/
and please read the part about nvidia.

--Kenny