[olug] Second monitor - NVidia Card?

[Tim - DZ]

The twinview works pretty well, it's all done inside the device section of
XF86Config (-4 dep on distro).

You may need to play with different releases, nvidia keeps many of the older
ones in an archive on their site - this is especially true if you want to
use the TV OUT - sometimes new drivers don't work with particular setups.

Finally if you have an AGP card, it's Mode heavily depends on your distro
and whether any AGP support is built into the kernel.  

Try

Option "NvAGP" "0"

With 0 1 and 2...3 is the default and means "attempt to autoselect" which
didn't work for some of my hardware on Mandrake 9.2 or Fedora 1...

If you get the NVidia splash screen at startup, you're gold.

-t 



-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Ken
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:56 PM
To: Jay at RebootTheUser.com; Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Second monitor



Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> You need to look into xinerama, and it depends on your card,
> 
> If you have an ATI card, they should have some information on their site,
> or look into GATOS or atitvout
> 
> If you have and nVidia card, you'd need to look for nvtv.
> 

Also, if you have an nVidia and want to use this functionality in the 
nvidia drivers then there is an entire section on this in their README 
file.  You'll need to choose between using the xinerama X extension 
(best for multiple video cards) or the the nvidia twinview feature (best 
for using dual outputs on a single nvidia card).
-Ken

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