After an inordinate amount of screwing around, and pouring over the
/var/log/Xorg.0.log repeatedly, I managed to get dualhead to work.  It
seems that the big problem I was running into was the card has three
"display" devices, and was defaulting to "CRT" and "TV."  Once I added
'Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV"' to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file,
all was right with the world.  Attached is my mutilated, but working,
xorg.conf file for all to behold.

Thank you for giving me the clue that sent me in the right direction. 
nvnews.net was also a bit of help...
-Erik

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:12:21 -0700, Bryce C <Plug@bryceco.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-28-03 at 13:09 -0700, Erik Bixby wrote:
> > I have a machine at work running SuSE 9.2, and I am trying to get both
> > monitors running, at once.  So far, I have tried every setting in SaX2
> > I could conceive of, and googled myself silly.  I can't get the two
> > monitors to work; one remains black.  The card has one DVI port and
> > one VGA port.  Immediately after install the display connected to the
> > DVI port was working.  Since installing nVidia's driver through YaST
> > the monitor attached to the VGA port is the one working.  I have
> > attached my xorg.conf file in the hope that someone will be able to
> > spot what I'm doing wrong.
> >
> > Thank you, in advance, for your help!
> > -Erik
> 
> Just a stab in the dark but, have you considered turning Xinerama on?
> (under "Layout[all]") What would be better still (because I don't know
> that nvidia does Xinerama) would be to use the nvidia TwinView
> capability. Google for that, and ditch Sax[2] for doing anything as
> advanced as dual-head.
> 
> -Bryce
> (writing this on the left screen, reading e-mail and IRC on the right
> currently)
> 
> Appropriate excerpt from my xorg.conf:
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Card0"
>        Driver      "nvidia"
>        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
>        BoardName   "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
>        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>        Option          "TwinView"      "TRUE"
>        Option          "TwinViewOrientation"   "RightOf"
>        Option          "MetaModes"     "1024x768,1024x768"
> EndSection
> 
> This is the only Device defined, only one Monitor defined, and only one
> Screen. nvidia handles it all with modes spec'd by MetaModes. That
> should get you working.
> *wishes his cheap-o LCDs did better than 1024x768*
> 
> 
>