On 7/3/06, Hadders <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I already have a PCX5900, so if I buy the new card, it should be a case of install, select from list and we're done.
Hi, I have been running an nvidia card with dual head for a little over a year and it's a breeze to set up. Hell I was not even aware of the abbility to run two monitors from one card untill a windows user told me about it so I went home and did some reading on the web and had it running in a few minutes. Here is my xorg.conf which might help, but in general search on "Nvida twinview" and read nvidias own docs. # XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config #Section "Extensions" # Option "Composite" "Enable" #EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "TwinView" Screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0 InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "1" Option "AllowClosedownGrabs" "1" Option "Xinerama" "off" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "i2c" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" #Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "int10" Load "type1" Load "vbe" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Direction L7" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync 28.0 - 64.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600XT]" Driver "nvidia" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "Backingstore" "true" # Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" Option "NvAgp" "2" Option "CursorShadow" "1" Option "Coolbits" "1" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "crt, crt" Option "TwinView" "1" Option "Metamodes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768; 1280x1024,NULL; 1024x768,NULL" # Option "Metamodes" "1280x1024,1024x768 @1024x1024; 1024x768,1024x768; 1280x1024,NULL; 1024x768,NULL" Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31-70" Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-120" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600XT]" Monitor "Direction L7" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection -- Rob
