Multi Monitor config

stan stanb at panix.com
Wed Jan 24 02:25:25 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:06:14AM +0000, N. Pauli wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan, stan wrote:
> > I have a Sun Ultra 40 which has a dual output Nvidia card. Today I decided
> > to play with this.
> > 
> > I was able to go into the (Gnome) hardware settings menu, and become 
> > administrator, then I set up the 2nd monitor. But I could not
> > find a "save settings" choice. After exiting I determined that no
> > changes had been made to teh xorg.conf file.
> > 
> > What am I missing?
> >
> Stan,
>  
> First, don't bother with the ubuntu 'nvidia-glx' package - it's v. 8776 and is a bit out of date and gave me problems. Instead use the latest drivers from Nvidia (currently v.9746.
> 

I have already installed wat I think are the latest nvida drivers usng
Automatix. I think all I am missing is figurng out how to change the
xorg.conf file.

I had hopes that the GUI interface would od that, as it seems to offer that
choice. Am I mistaken?
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