Dual monitors in FC5/6

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 17:56:38 UTC 2006


On 10/25/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/25/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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).
> > >
> > > --
> >
> > I use KDE, hopefully all KDE apps will play nice. Where can i find this README?
>
> /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt
>
> and on the same page where you download the driver.
>

I got the driver from livna, the file you seemed to have been refering
to resides at /usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.8776/README.txt.

Thanks.

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