I just got it working. I bought "Hacking Ubuntu" at the bookstore, and
followed its instructions for TwinView. I put the following into
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600]"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "TwinView"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT,CRT"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "UseEdidFreqs"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "UseEdidFreqs"
# Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "24-80"
# Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-75"
EndSection
this makes it work perfectly!
I guess the error must have been that SysInfo wasn't saving its
modifications to xorg, so perhaps I should have run it as sudo. I was
just selecting it from the menu. Thats too bad, an XP convert would
never know to do that, and SysInfo would just fail to work for them. I
think that usability bit should be fixed.
Whatever the case, this fixes it so you can close this one.
Kevin
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