i have a question about Dualview and video overlay. Here's my xorg.conf file under the section "video settings:"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "DigitalVibrance" # <i>
#Option "NoFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoLogo" # [<bool>]
#Option "UBB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Stereo" # <i>
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "NvAGP" # <i>
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ConnectedMonitor" # <str>
#Option "ConnectedMonitors" # <str>
#Option "TVStandard" # <str>
#Option "TVOutFormat" # <str>
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "CursorShadow" # [<bool>]
#Option "CursorShadowAlpha" # <i>
#Option "CursorShadowXOffset" # <i>
#Option "CursorShadowYOffset" # <i>
#Option "UseEdidFreqs" # [<bool>]
#Option "FlatPanelProperties" # <str>
#Option "TwinView" # [<bool>]
#Option "TwinViewOrientation" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" # <str>
#Option "MetaModes" # <str>
#Option "UseInt10Module" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoRenderExtension" # [<bool>]
#Option "Overlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "CIOverlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceEmulatedOverlay" # [<bool>]
#Option "TransparentIndex" # <i>
#Option "OverlayDefaultVisual" # [<bool>]
#Option "NvEmulate" # <i>
#Option "NoBandWidthTest" # [<bool>]
#Option "CustomEDID-CRT-0" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-CRT-1" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-DFP-0" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-DFP-1" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-TV-0" # <str>
#Option "CustomEDID-TV-1" # <str>
#Option "TVOverScan" # <f>
#Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" # <str>
#Option "MultisampleCompatibility" # [<bool>]
#Option "RegistryDwords" # <str>
#Option "RegistryBinary" # <str>
#Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" # [<bool>]
#Option "AllowDFPStereo" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCUsesTextures" # [<bool>]
#Option "HorizSync" # <str>
Option "VertRefresh" 75 Hz
#Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" # [<bool>]
#Option "RandRRotation" # [<bool>]
#Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

what should I modify to use dualview?

i guess that .exe must have been a self-extracting cab
can't remember what it was though




i am not too familiar with Maple's features,
but you can try http://www.openscience.org
for some opensource equivalents maybe

All those things that you listed not being able to get working so far are just a matter of you not knowing how to configure them yet... All easy things to fix.

Just keep asking here and you'll get pointed in the right direction. I just happen to have the same exact GPU that I pipe to my Trinitron TV. Heres my setup.

Checkout the docs for Nvidia in /usr/doc. Theres a huge README there covering a boat load of driver options. The above should steer you in the right direction. Just do a FIND on all those options above and read about them to determine what your setup should be.

I haven't had windoze on any machine in a looong time. Never missed it.

There is only one app that I use that's written for windoze and that's ThePalace client and that's only because there's no Linux equivalent. Well, one project was started called LinPal but has never developed into anything useable. That one app runs pretty well in Wine.

If you run Wine, I strongly suggest also downloading and installing Winetools and using that to set up your Wine. It does a great job of setting up a fake windoze system for you.

As far as I'm concerned, windoze doesn't even exist. Well, except for fixing my friend's and relative's machines when they get trashed by windoze associated garbage.

Funny.. I'm tired of that crap. People ask me quite often to fix their windows boxes and I'm tired of messing with them.

The only thing I keep windows around for is the latest games that won't run on Cedega. You'd be suprised tho. I have Half-Life 2 running quite well on Cedega. With ports such as Doom 3 and Enemy Territory, I'll be lucky if I boot into windows a couple times a month, if that.

Same here, my friends always call me to repair their windows system....

In each time I answered them that I have no idea how things work in windows and
they think I lie because they see me doing commands in a terminal in Linux so they
have the feeling that I am a computer engineer or they think I am chatting with the
system....

At thirst they laught on me saying that I use a prehistoric system because it has no
icons and no games. I say to them that I prefer pay a computer that do the job
in a productive way rather than a playstation

Everytime friends or family asked me about this error and that error in Windoze, I feel like ripping Bill Gates head off his body.

I don't even consider Windoze as a operating system. Windoze can't function with anti-virus and anti-spyware program which is uptodate. Without it, it is as good as dung.

Just wipe out Windoze you don't need that junk wasting harddisk space.

I never regret going Linux only on my desktop. In fact, I can't live without *nix OS.

I needed to move to linux for my work (I´m programmer). I was afraid about:
Visual C++ 6.0
Outpost Firewall
IE
&rq
The Bat!
Flashget
compilers of many languages

But found all it´s equivalents here.

From what I understand, Maple works in linux. I think there is a .bz2 install of Maple on the same cd as the windows install. If you can't remember where you put that CD, there is an open source program called Octave. It is similar, but I am not familiar with why it is.

Windows is *extremely* easy to install and operate. That's why it's popular. I don't think anyone other than Microsoft claims that it is the most efficient (although some claim it's more secure, but that's just outright false). Windows is poor in functionality but is amazing in design. It's successful for a reason.

(I use Slackware)

In Windows there are many complicated things, hiding near good GUI

There is no README for Nvidia in my /usr/doc folder. I do have the software installed too.


Also, I want to set up video overlay if I can. I was able to create an entirely new desktop, but I want to have video "blown up" on my TV screen.

iirc, maple was running on Unix long before microsoft's monopoly over retail consumers. I haven't used it recently, but its hard to imagine a scientific/engineering application without a *nix version....

the rest of the stuff (bittorrent, xmms, etc.) works perfectly with trivial setup.

EDIT: oops - didn't see egag's link above on maple

Nvidia readme:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...174/README.txt

Are you sure of that ?
ls -d /usr/doc/NVIDIA*
...return nothing ?

You could read it online too:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...174/README.txt
(last driver, intel 32 bits version)

Go down to your local Best Buy and pick a prefabricated computer. What OS does it come with?

Not only is it easy, it comes with most prefab computers. Dell, one of the biggest manufacturers of prebuilt computers, installs Windows on its computers. You'd be hard pressed to find a well-known store that sells these types of computers that has Linspire installed on them instead.