Dual monitor possible?

[Ashley Benton]

I went to the forum mentionned earlier and following  discovered that
effectively I have only one graphic card recognized. What sould I do to have
the second one also recognized by the system?
meg at meg-desktop:~$ lspci -x | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5500]
(rev a1)
Thank you
Megan

On 10/5/07, Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Effectively I found only one device in the xorg.conf (NVIDIA Corporation
> NV18 [GForce GPu] with driver nvidia. That is strange because my monitor is
> working with the other card [3D fuzion graphic card (found with lspci: VGA
> compatible controller nVidia Corporation NV34[GeForce Fx 5500] rev al) Or
> maybe it is the same card and the other was is not recognized? What I don't
> understand is why my screen is working with the new card and not the old
> plug for it anymore. Did I delete the old installation when I installed the
> new card. I just put it in the computer, plugged the screen in it and put
> the power back. I am still trying to change the xorg.conf files but got
> some troubles to get out of the vim. Whatever I try I'm always coming back
> to vim, can't exit the file and go back to the terminal to end the session.
> I tried :!q; :q; :w /home/meg/tmp; each time that brings me back in the vim
> on the file. I did ctrl+alt+F7 and went to change the read, write and
> execute of the xorg.conf file, then went back to F1 but still I can't get
> out of the vim. If you wonder why I am in vim I edited the file with vim,
> put it in insert mode and changed it. If you know how to close it let me
> know or I'll try to unplug the computer and do it again. 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:
> >
> > > Hadn't thought of that wrinkle - I see her original card is a Geforce4
> > > If she did install the nvidia propriatary drivers as her note says and
> >
> > > it's still working then this isn't an issue for her.
> >
> > I pointed it out 'cos I've got several nVidias only supported by the
> > legacy drivers, and not only are they a real pain to get going, more
> > than once, they've *completely* broken X.11 on Ubuntu for me. I wish
> > I'd had the new "bulletproof X" back then!
> >
> > I may have missed it - do we know the exact models of both cards? That
> > would be handy.
> >
> > > Nope - it's not - but that's what turns beginners into gurus right ?
> > >
> > > Besides - we are all here to help her along.
> >
> > Got to smile at both of those! :¬)
> >
> > I'm no expert at reading xorg.conf files, but I don't think I saw any
> > reference to the 2nd card in the ones there?
> >
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