The Crocodile wrote:
Stephen,

Ask anyone who was around for the 30 hours I spent trying to get dual
head to work with two Nvidia cards and Fedora Core 1. There was PLENTY
of bitching going on, but I did eventually get it working.

You can see my configuration at www.pasture.com/~tcroc/MISC/XF86Config

You have to do some twinview tweaks to get the thing working correctly.
In particular take a look at the section "Device" for Identifier
"Videocard1" to see all the twinview and nvidia driver specific options
I have in there.

Try using some of those in the same place within your XF86Config file.
Also, do NOT rely at all on the crappy buggy XF86 Gui configuration
tools that come with Fedora. They all suck and can't be trusted. Do it
by hand.

Well, doing nvidia twinview with one card is quite trivial. I've never done it with two cards, so I can imagine that would be more difficult. The place you need to look is in the Nvidia driver README file.

To enable twinview for one card all you need to add is
five lines to your 'Section "Device"'. Here's mine.
The lines after 'Option "TwinView"...' are the ones
you need to add.  Note that I put my second monitor
to the left of my first one because of how my desk
is setup.  Many people prefer to put it to the right.

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 DDR (generic)"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "DPMS"
    Option "HWCursor" "true"
    Option "CursorShadow" "false"
    Option "TwinView" "true"
    Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync"     "30-95"
    Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh"   "50-160"
    Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768"
    Option "TwinViewOrientation"        "LeftOf"
EndSection


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