[TriLUG] running two monitors on a dual-headed card

[David A. Cafaro]

It all depends on what kind of hardware you have.  I'm running dual 19"
off a single Nvidia 5200, but to do that you have to use the nvidia
binary driver (Never had any luck getting the nv opensource driver to
work right).  Here is the relevant info from my xorg.conf file:


Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "NEC AccuSync 95F"
        DisplaySize  370        270
        HorizSync    31.0 - 96.0
        VertRefresh  55.0 - 160.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
        Option      "TwinView"
        Option      "SecondMonitorHorizSync"     "30.0 - 107.0"
        Option      "SecondMonitorVertRefresh"   "48.0 - 120.0"
        Option      "MetaModes"                 "1600x1200,1600x1200"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
			 "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection



On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 12:49, Dan Monjar wrote:
> Anyone got any hints on how to setup my system to run with a dual-headed 
> card?  Currently using Mandrake 10.  I'll accept any replies, top or bottom 
> posted...
> 
> -- 
> Dan Monjar

-- 
David A. Cafaro
dac(at)trilug.org
Admin to User: "You did what!?!?!"