Does the nouveau driver support dual monitors ? How ?

Alastair Neil ajneil at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 19:18:08 UTC 2009


dual monitors work for me on F11 with a quadro NVS 290 card

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kernel 2.6.29.6-217 installed this morning on my computer during a yum
> update.  There was no kmod-nvidia package.  My computer rebooted using a
> different video driver. nouveau ?
>
> Its all good except that I lost my dual display functionality and I need
> it back.
>
> Assuming the driver running is nouveau, how does one set up dual display
> functionality ?   I ask this because a while back I read that using
> xorg.conf for setting things up is kind of taboo these days.  (This was
> in reference to initializing the Synaptics touchpad.)
>
> So... how do I determine what video driver my system is currently
> using ? (lsmod ?)
>
> How do I configure it to drive the second display ?
>
> Thanks
>
> $uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29
> 15:46:46 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> $ lsmod | grep video
> video                  17380  0
> uvcvideo               49804  0
> output                  2364  1 video
> videodev               32216  1 uvcvideo
> v4l1_compat            11560  2 uvcvideo,videodev
>
>
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