Dual monitor possible?

[Ashley Benton]

Hello,
Maybe it is not a beginner exercise but if I don't try I won't learn. As in
all exercises that touch the system I did the back up of my personal files
and some research to how to back up the working xorg.conf. The only thing I
am not sure is if I need to change the permission of xorg.conf to be able to
modify it and how to change the permission. I will try like that and have a
look in the book if I can't change it. I'll post the results as soon as I am
done.
Thank you
Megan

On 10/4/07, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 04/10/2007, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 03/10/2007, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > connect both screens to that one. Trying to get dual-head going with 2
> > > different cards is harder than one. Even if they're both nVidia ones,
> > > both have to be new enough and closely-enough related to work with the
> > > same driver.
> >
> > Not true at all - I've got a dual head setup with one nVidia and one
> > 3dfx.  While working at it I cycled thru a couple different SiS and
> > ATI models too.
>
> I'm sure it's /possible/, but if one card requires the nVidia binary
> driver and one the nVidia legacy driver, I think she would be stuck.
> AFAIK you can't have both.
>
> And using nVidias, it's /drastically/ easier to use nVidia's own
> multihead support (DualView or something) than try to get it working
> with bare X.11. I have tried the latter myself and failed many times.
>
> > It won't be point and click easy - but hey if she wants to learn let her
> try!
>
> Is this really a beginner exercise? That's all I'm asking.
>
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