hello,

i'm trying to get dual display to work in linux. I'm having trouble with what route to take in accomplishing this task. First should i use Xinerama or Twinview? I found the linuxquestion wiki site: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...rs_with_Nvidia but i'm just confuse on how to configure my xorg.conf file.

should i just make 2 monitor section and 2 device section or should i just make two monitor sections and two screen sections? If anyone has any insight or experience with setting up dual display or even dual display wiht a geforce 5200, it would be very helpful. Or even a sample xorg.conf file i can hack would be even better


thanks,

djgerbavor3

Ask and thou shalt recieve! Took me a while to get this one nailed too! This will give you a large desktop stretched over 2 monitors, for info, when watching a movie in full screen it will only use one monitorso you can still surf at the same time!

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA"
Driver "nvidia"
VideoRam 131072
Option "HorizSync" "30-110"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1152x864,1152x864; 1024x768,1024x768; 800x600,800x600; 640x480,640x480"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "VertRefresh" "50-160"

# twin-view
Option "TwinView"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "NVIDIA"
Monitor "My Monitor"

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "My Monitor"
HorizSync 30-110
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "vga"
EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
Screen "Screen 1"
EndSection


If you need any parts of this explaining, let me know

hey thanks, i got dual display working, however, on the second monitor there is black border made my kde, i think i has to do with the resolution on the second monitor, but i'm not sure i tried different resolution, but i doesn't seem to go away? any ideas?


thanks,
djgerbavor3

are the monitors different sizes? if not, try stretching the monitors screen by using the controls on your monitor itself until the border is gone. This is what I needed to do due to slight differences between my monitors

ya that is what i did for a quick fix. Ya the one monitor is a 19' and the other one is a 21 inch. I'll try messing with different resolution to see if i can fix it.

thanks again,

djgerbavor3