On Friday 07 March 2008 08:57:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > twinview merges the two screens in the driver
> >
> > save yourself the pain, sudo nvidia-settings and use the happy gui
> > then set them up as seperate screens.
> >
> > i have personally set up a machine with 8 screens (4 dual head hards)
> > with current nvidia hardware. what you are after is achievable!
>
> That's what I keep reading - all very achievable. In fact with this
> machine I specifically got nvidia hardware instead of ati cause my
> reading indicated nvidia had better support in this area. So far my
> experience tells me ati was better.
>
> In any case, I've tried the nvidia-settings, which seemed to be the way
> but it refuses to acknowledge the fact that I am already using the
> nvidia driver (as opposed to nv). Every time I try and open it, it spits
> up the message "You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver.
> Please edit your X configuration.....and restart the X Server",
> regardless of whether nv or nvidia is in the xorg.conf file. Which
> basically means I've got to resort to manual method.
Ah ha.
Your xorg.conf file must say (only driver bit is relevant)
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8600 GT]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection
Then the kernel modules must match or the settings will be overwritten.
look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for stuff like this
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"
I built the latest NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run
but the apt-get nvidia-glx-new really complicated it.
Probably the Restricted Drivers dialog is the best way to get going but
getting the modules only the correct modules and nothing but the correct
modules is fraught with peril.
whereafter nvidia-settings is easy
James
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