Help me reinstall Nvidia drivers and get TwinView working? Fedora 6

ttnunam · 11-05-2006, 03:13 PM

Hi all,

I've been trying to get a dual display working but I keep running into problems. At the moment I think I have two different sets of Nvidia drivers installed and I would like to get rid of them and start over. First I used the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8776-pkg2.run, where I had to extract the entire thing and then manually change one of the files. Then I downloaded the livna drivers through YUM, but I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the other ones. Also, I'm not really sure where to start to get both displays working (Twinview?).

When I try running glxgears I get:

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

Where should I start?

ttnunam · 11-05-2006, 04:35 PM

I think it's good now... so how can I set up my dual display?

cs-cam · 11-05-2006, 05:42 PM

Twinview is a piece of cake. Add these lines to your xorg.conf under the Device section to get a basic setup then use the README on the Nvidia site to fine-tune it.

Code:

  Option     "TwinView"
  Option     "MetaModes"  "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768; 1024x768; 800x600,800x600; 800x600"
  Option     "TwinViewOrientation"      "RightOf"

ttnunam · 11-05-2006, 05:57 PM

I added those lines, but then I restarted and plugged in the second monitor and got the same problem I've been getting... the screens go black (kind of) when linux loads and there is no image.

Blimpie · 11-06-2006, 06:50 AM

You *do* have both monitors plugged in when you startx, right? Also, post your xorg.conf file and we can correct it.

ttnunam · 11-09-2006, 02:39 AM

I'm not sure exactly what I did, but somewhere after reinstalling drivers it suddenly worked.

cs-cam · 11-09-2006, 07:39 PM

Good to hear you had a win