Video upgrade advice

[Badger, Shawn]

Here is the snipit form my xorg.conf. I run dual 1280x1024 displays on an nVida card. to generate mos of it I used a script off the nvidia site.


Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6600"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "True"
    Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
    Option         "UseEdidFreqs" "True"
    Option         "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "2560x1024" "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection



-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of George Toft
Sent: Thu 8/10/2006 7:23 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Video upgrade advice
 
Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Technomage wrote:
> 
>> I would recommend "interactively bootong" (if thats possible there), 
>> turn off kudzu (temporarily) and then setup the hardware MANUALLY.
> 
> 
> I have no problem shutting down kudzu.
> Anyone have any howto pointers or advice on setting up a new video card 
> manually (on FC5)? I'm afraid that's my only option.
> 

What I did recently was to find someone else's config on the Internet 
(for my GeForce 6200 dual head setup), go to runlevel 3, and ...
repeat
	vi xorg.conf
	startx
	<ctrl><alt><backspace>
	backup mostly working xorg.conf configs
until it looked right.

No tool I had would set up the dual display on that card so I stood on 
the shoulders of those greater than me to get mine set up.

If anyone is using nvidia chips and dual head, I'll share my xorg.conf.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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