I am about to build me a new PC;

ASUS Crosshair II Formula
AMD Phenom 9950 BLACK EDITION Agena 2.6GHz
EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB (x2)
OpenSuSE 11.1

There is more neato stuff I plan to add but I believe this is sufficient to describe my situation...

I plan to configure my X desktop to span across four displays attached to two Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX cards... now I know people are asking "why the frak do you need 4 displays?!?" simply put, I dont... I WANT 4 displays! nothing more.

So to set this up I know to just go into the nvidia-settings utility and setup all 4 displays... I think... Last time I tried this I had to also configure xinerama but I am HOPING this is not the case anymore as xinerama was also what stopped me from using desktop effects across three displays...

is there an easier way to do this or have Nvidia/novell finally fixed this so it's strait forward?

I've always manually configured the displays Xorg file. And I know what you mean with Xinerama...it kills a lot of really cool functionality! The downside to not using it, is that you can't move anything between screens. Each one acts like a different terminal, ya know? But anyway, it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to get all 4 configured.

--scott

Try running "nvidia-settings". It may detect both of your cards and the 4 monitors and help you configure xorg.conf. I don't know if "twinview" is meant literally however, but nvidia-settings is worth a shot and may at least give you framework xorg.conf file that you can tweak.

cool! thanks for the suggestions, It may be a while before I can try them out... this is turning out to be a rather expensive build.