Nouveau driver with nvidia dual head

[Kirk Lowery]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 08:20 -0500, Kirk Lowery wrote:
>
> > Well, I tried this conf and it worked -- exactly as without an
> > xorg.conf: everything about dual head works except for the background
> > stretch.
> >
> > I guess I'm going to have to get in touch with the LiveCD developers,
> > and find out who does the nouveau stuff for it; either that or the
> > nouveau IRC.
>
> xorg.conf file isn't used because the system is setup so that everything
> (if possible)is detected automatically and setup/used depending on what
> it finds (via some type of id that is used on various cards/monitors).
> There are the exceptions I guess with dual monitors and certain setups
> that normal users probably wouldn't encounter, as well as maybe certain
> laptop setups.  I would say those type things might have to have an
> xorg.conf file to get into more detail to get those type situations
> working as they are suppose to.
>
>
So...if a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists, does nouveau use it? If not, how
does one force its use?

Kirk
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