Is this still about getting a second display working for presentations? If so its quite easy to do with the nvidia-settings app. You don't need to mess around with config files either, Nvidia-settings does that for you. You need to let it write a xorg.conf and save it to your /home directory because you need to be root to put it where it actually needs to go. Do the setup, save the file then su and cp the file to /etc/X11. once the config is done, the second display will work when you connect it and restart x and go back to normal single display when you disconnect it.
On Monday 25 April 2011 18:07:56 Mel Walters wrote: > Now I see some references to this claim: > > [all variants] RandR 1.3 won't support multiple video cards > > Now I am thinking this could have been causing my problems? > > My next step could be try putting both video cables on one of my cards. > > Could it be those who told me it was easy did not run two cards? > > This is way too difficult and should not be happening. Not exactly a > stellar user experience from Nvidia driver or their nvidia-settings > program. > > Seriously thinking of going back to nuveau[FOSS] till nvidia gets their > act together. > > Mel > > nvidia-kernel-195.36.31-6 > > Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 > > Debian squeeze (stable) > > mwalters@hawk:~$ xrandr -v > xrandr program version 1.3.3 > Server reports RandR version 1.3 > > mwalters@hawk:~$ lspci |grep VGA > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 > GT] (rev a2) > > 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 > GT] (rev a2) > > mwalters@hawk:~$ xrandr -q > xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1600 x 1200 > default connected 1600x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm > 1600x1200 50.0* > 1600x1024 51.0 > 1440x900 52.0 > 1400x1050 53.0 54.0 55.0 56.0 57.0 > 1360x768 58.0 59.0 > 1280x1024 60.0 61.0 62.0 > 1280x960 63.0 64.0 > 1152x864 65.0 66.0 67.0 68.0 69.0 70.0 > 71.0 > 1024x768 72.0 73.0 74.0 75.0 76.0 77.0 > 960x720 78.0 79.0 > 960x600 80.0 > 960x540 81.0 > 928x696 82.0 83.0 > 896x672 84.0 85.0 > 840x525 86.0 87.0 88.0 89.0 90.0 > 832x624 91.0 > 800x600 92.0 93.0 94.0 95.0 96.0 97.0 > 98.0 99.0 100.0 101.0 > 800x512 102.0 > 720x450 103.0 > 720x400 104.0 > 700x525 105.0 106.0 107.0 108.0 > 680x384 109.0 110.0 > 640x512 111.0 112.0 113.0 > 640x480 114.0 115.0 116.0 117.0 118.0 119.0 > 120.0 121.0 > 640x400 122.0 123.0 > 640x350 124.0 > 576x432 125.0 126.0 127.0 128.0 129.0 130.0 > 131.0 > 512x384 132.0 133.0 134.0 135.0 136.0 > 416x312 137.0 > 400x300 138.0 139.0 140.0 141.0 142.0 > 360x200 143.0 > 320x240 144.0 145.0 146.0 147.0 > 320x200 148.0 > 320x175 149.0 > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
