Re: SuSE 9.2/GeForce 5500/Dual Monitors (2*Dell 1702FP)

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*