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I am trying to configure dual monitors (TwinView) on my laptop equipped with an nVidia Go5600 mobile 128MB video card... I installed the nVidia drivers from YOU (I am using SuSE 9.3) and they were successful (version 1.0-7167 i believe)... and running Sax2, i tried enabling TwinView, but nothing... Both monitors (the laptop LCD and the CRT) seem to be detected, because my CRT is cloning my desktop right now, but I cannot seem to define it as a 2nd monitor to adjust it's independant resolution, or to adjust the MultiHead settings...
Then I found out about the nvidia-settings command from the terminal... which is a nice graphical interface for adjusting the video card settings like in the windows driver... but it's very lacking, without configuration for TwinView yet... So I thought maybe the new 1.0-7676 drivers might have that support... but I'd have to install them manually... So I did..
Now I am running the latest linux nvidia drivers, and still stuck as to how I can enable/adjust TwinView to actually get some use out of my 2nd monitor...
Any help/suggestions/experiences would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
To answer your question as to whether or not I have edited my xorg.conf file to add the second monitor, I have not. I am not entirely sure how to edit the xorg.conf file.. I assume I'd need to shut down the X server to edit it, correct?
I've gone into the SaX2 Desktop / Graphics Card configuration and enabled TwinView in the Card options list... but other than that I'm not sure what I might/need to add to the xorg.conf to add the 2nd monitor...
I just tried editing my xorg.conf using /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/XF86Config.sample as a reference.. and ended up losing my GUI upon boot... so I had to restore my backup of my original xorg.conf... so everything's normal again.. but still no TwinView!
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