On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 16:58 -0400, Shawn Guillemette wrote: > I have a Inspiron 9300 with a Gforce FX 9600 PCIexpress. On the back > there are two video outputs. A DVI and a VGA output. I would like to use > an extra crt monitor on the vga output. Im unable to get it working > using the menu --> system setting app to anable the dual heads. > > > any hints would be great .. > On 2 separate systems (Dimension 4550 w/ nVidia 5700 and Precision Workstation 470 w/ Quadro 280) I was only able to get dual monitors to work with the proprietary nVidia driver. That said it works very well. I added the following to the videocard "Device" section of my xorg.conf: Option "TwinView" Option "UseEdidFreqs" "1" Option "Metamodes" "1280x1024,1280x1024" I have a pair of flat panel displays on each machine, so the only metamode I bothered to configure was full resolution on each display (see the nVidia readme for details). Brian -- Brian Gaynor www.pmccorp.com FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz canis 14:23:52 up 35 min, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.22,
