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[Richard Faulkner]

Trying to get dual-monitors running...that would make sense.  My 6800
GS's are dual-head.  Perhaps I should try swapping-out the GPU's for a
single-head PCI card to see what happens.  (Another project for the
weekend).


On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 00:11 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:04:58 -0400
> Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 03/25/2010 11:34 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> > > Yeah...I could do that but that's not really the point.  I'm
> > > ditching the Windows world for Linux and am starting at home.  I'm
> > > getting ready to start Linux certs and recant from my MCSE way of
> > > life.  
> > > 
> > > At one time I had tried hacking the randr entries but all that did
> > > was get 1680x1050 listed in the drop-down for resolution selections
> > > but was not recognized as a valid resolution on selection.  Very
> > > curious...
> > > 
> > > Since I've gotten over that hump and found that a simple config file
> > > will do the trick I'm looking elsewhere as the culprit that's
> > > causing this video failure.  NV indicates it as an X issue and in
> > > looking at the boot sequence I'm driven to suspect it as an X issue
> > > as well.  But then again I am a noob to Ubuntu as having been away
> > > from Unix/Linux for 10-years on any consistent basis.  Getting
> > > ready to start on certs for Linux and turn from the "darkside".
> > 
> > My thought is that if you use the proprietary, binary-only nvidia
> > driver you're throwing away all the work you did getting a working
> > xorg.conf with the free, open source nv driver.
> > 
> > Whatever it is that you want to do with the nvidia graphics tools,
> > perhaps there is another way of doing it that does not depend on
> > proprietary software.
> > 
> > It might also be worth booting the Ubuntu 10.04 beta live cd, which
> > replaces the nv driver with the noveau driver, to see how well it
> > works.
> > 
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1
> > 
> 
> IIRC the OP is trying to get dual monitors working.  
>