I would really appreciate some direction with an issue I am currently experiencing. Truthfully, I am unsure where to begin to resolve it, I also am not confident I am posting this in the correct forum.
I am running Fedora 14 on a Dell Latitude D620. It is not a powerful laptop, but meets my personal programming interests. From what I have read, the video card is pretty low end, and that my be the heart of the issue.
The video card is NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M, and I used the package kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs, following the instructions found here:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.co...ouveau-driver/
It seemed to be quite successful, Compiz worked well when I enabled it. GLXGears was giving a fps that was on par with what I found online for the same card.
I decided to give gnome-shell a shot, and really like it. However, when I attempt to run it when hooked up to an external monitor, choosing Separate X Windows, gnome-shell fails to load after login. It seemingly freezes as it attempts to load and both screens are blank.
I disabled Xinerama, and after login, the system gets a bit farther, it loads the wallpaper on both screens but the begins flickering repeatedly. It does not load anything, just sits there.
I am trying to figure out where to begin to troubleshoot this, if there is a log I should be looking at, essentially anything I can use to plug into Google and see if I can correct the issue. Again, maybe my video card simply cannot handle two monitors in gnome-shell.
Any thoughts and direction would be greatly appreciated.