<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 20:34 +0000, Adam Bagnall wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Farran wrote: > Hi all, especially Rob cos I saw he mentioned this... > > how do I get my nVidia GT8600 to do dual screen? There's a DVI port > and a VGA port, but only one of them will give an image at a time when > two monitors are plugged in - the DVI. Why is this? The screen setup > doesn't detect the second screen. > As far as I know, i have not installed twinview or anything else > manually: don't know if it comes pre-installed... > > Thanks in advance if anyone can help :D > > =============================== > Farran Lee > I'm only 15 :-P > I recently set up dual head on Ubuntu for a friend using an nvidia card, I can't remember the exact details but I'll see if I can help. 1. run "gksudo nvidia-settings" either from a terminal or by pressing alt+F2. 2. Go to the "x server display configuration" section and click the "detect displays" button Here's where I can't remember exactly because I don't have dual displays but: 3. Set display mode to twinview 4. Tick the "enable xinerama" checkbox 5. Click the "save to x configuration file" button and merge changes when prompted. 6. Restart your Xserver and hope. (If you've got nothing important open then just hit ctrl+alt+backspace) 7. ??? 8. Profit! Regards, Adam. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> ok, thanks, that looks good. have found the control panel and the detect displays, but i never did it with both screens in. the next step for the programmery people is to integrate that into the screens and graphics window. I had to hunt for the nvidia panel, and that was only because i knew there should've been one... I'll try it soon <IMG SRC="cid:1204835278.13254.3.camel@debianbella" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":D" BORDER="0"> </BODY> </HTML>