On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 18:26 -0700, Dave Close wrote: > I have a small Acer desktop with two video connectors. The onboard > chip is an Nvidia GF7100 with a VGA connector. The addin PCIe board > has an Nvidia G100 with an HDMI connector. I have identical monitors > attached to both connectors. > > The Windows which came with the box has no trouble automatically > recognizing and using both monitors. Of course, that is of no interest > to me except to verify the hardware is working and connected properly. > I want both monitors to work with Fedora 11. > > My installation has Gnome, KDE, and XFce4. None of them seem to > recognize that the box even has a second video interface. The monitor > they use is the one attached to the addin board but the one that > system-config-display reports under "hardware"/"video card" is the > GF7100. Selecting "use dual head" and then "second video card" shows > only "====". > > lshw reports both video adapters. It shows GF7100 for the onboard chip > but only shows the PCI numbers for the G100, not the name. > > I have tried manual editing of xorg.conf. Now system-config-display > says it is running in dual head mode but still doesn't show a second > display adapter. And the second display is still dark. > > I have selected the nvidia driver for the GF7100 but vesa for the > G100. The nvidia driver doesn't seem to recognize the G100 and X > refuses to start if I try to use it. > > Can anyone tell me the secret incantation I need to get this working? have you tried using gnome-display-properties, I use my laptop monitor and an external monitor at work.. maybe it will find the complex setup?
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