TwinView with nVidia on Suse 9.3

I am running suse 9.3. with Geoforce 6800 Ultra. I have two 17" Dell LCD connected to the card. So far, i have Xinerama running perfect, so one desktop is spilted in two monitors. However, 3D Acceleration is enabled on one monitor only. And SaX2 can not enable twinview.

It tried editing my xorg.conf and adding "option "twinview" "1"" and all that fun stuff. but no luck so far!

anyone got twinview to work ?? help plz, this my 5th day trying.

Originally posted by bme guy I am running suse 9.3. with Geoforce 6800 Ultra. I have two 17" Dell LCD connected to the card. So far, i have Xinerama running perfect, so one desktop is spilted in two monitors. However, 3D Acceleration is enabled on one monitor only. And SaX2 can not enable twinview. It tried editing my xorg.conf and adding "option "twinview" "1"" and all that fun stuff. but no luck so far! anyone got twinview to work ?? help plz, this my 5th day trying.

I have twinview running on my system.

I don't think you want option "twinview "1", as mine is Option "TwinView". Below I've included my Device section. You will need to edit the MetaModes,and SecondMonitor* options for your setup.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "NVidia"
Option "NoLogo" "yes"
Option "TwinView"
Option "MetaModes" "1400x1050,1400x1050"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31.5 - 65.3"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60.0 - 70.1"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
EndSection

have a look at the suse manual - as I think I read that you can only have 3d with one screen

Yup, that did it. i just edited the "Device" section. and it works perfect now.

by the way, did you find solution for making programs open in one of the monitors instead of in the middle of the two ? it's kinda of annoying don't you think.

Cool, glad to see that it helped. As for programs opening in the middle of the screen, yes, it can get pretty annoying

Depending on your WM you might be able to play around with where it places new windows. I'm currently using Gnome and it's default setting seem to try to place a window by itself which usually means it will either land on the left or right screen and not in the middle. I'm not sure exactly where the settings are though, since I'm not normally a Gnome user.

This is a new box and I'm probably going to be switching back to fluxbox soon. I miss my keyboard shortcuts