Dual monitors in FC5/6
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 17:09:27 UTC 2006
On 10/25/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am soon to install FC6. I have an AGP Geforce2 in my box right now
> pushing my main monitor. I have an lcd which seems to max out at
> 1024x768. I also have a PCI VGA lieing around. Is getting dual monitor
> support as simple as popping in the second card before installing FC6?
> I do not need accelerated graphics on the second card (doubt it can
> anyways) but do use the binary blobs for my nvidia card.
>
> I have never really done this before. So suggestions from others who
> have would be much appreiciated.
Assuming that you don't have a 'legacy' GeForce2 (see the driver
README for thte list), you can run:
nvidia-xconfig -a --separate-x-screens --xinerama
and you'll be done. Note that there is an Xorg bug where some apps
(gnome-terminal amongst them) will crash immediately if Composite is
enabled with Xinerama. The workaround is to disable Composite (in
FC6).
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