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So, I bought a new ASUS motherboard so I could get a PCIe graphics card. Bought a GeForce 7600GT. By default, dual monitors come up with the same screen, however, if I try to enable dual head, X crashes on load. I have tried most of the drivers available from nvidia's page with the same result. Display shows the card as "nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0391." What do I do?
Well, I was able to fix it by manually editing xorg.conf. Kinda disheartening that I can't use the display GUI without crashing X, though. Here's my xorg.conf. It's halfway auto-generated, halfway edited.
While we're on the subject, I had the same troubles only I set out to edit manually right from the start. I was surprised to see that Nvidia detects the old analog monitor as primary display and the new digital monitor is secondary. Naturally, I have the digital on the left, so I had to use LeftOf to swap positions of the displays in software. Then I had to go into KDE and move the icons and taskbar to the other desktop.
Here's my good, working xorg.conf. For brevity, I'm only showing the video section, not the input device and other stuff.
Code:
# Small analog flat panel monitor on the right.
# For some reason nvidia detects it as primary monitor...
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Righty"
VendorName "NEC"
ModelName "MultiSync LCD 1525M"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
# big digital flat panel monitor on the left
# Nvidia detects it as secondary monitor. Yes, confusing!
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Lefty"
VendorName "Envision"
ModelName "EN9250"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "BigScreen"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "TwinView"
# metamodes are reversed because we are using LeftOf
Option "MetaModes" "1024x768@1024x1024, 1280x1024; 800x600@800x768, 1024x768; , 1024x768; , 800x600; , 640x480"
# We use LeftOf to swap positions of right and left monitor
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "BigScreen"
# Doesn't seem to matter which Monitor we put here
Monitor "Lefty"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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