Dual monitor possible?

[Ashley Benton]

I went to the BIOS settings and changed Primary Video Adaptater from PCI to
AGP/Onboard but when Ubuntu started again, it stated with the same screen.
So apparently it didn't put the old card back. Maybe I could take the card
off the computer and the old settings would come back? What do you think?
Thank you
Megan

On 10/5/07, Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, I will go in the BIOS settings and try but I don't know how to restore
> the original xorg.conf since I did a backup of the file after I had put
> the other card in the computer. I would think that this back up was done too
> late to be of any use. I installed a backup program on the computer but I
> don't know how to use it and have no idea if it's working. I went to check
> in the terminal and put the result so you will know if there is a backup
> here and if it can be useful.
>
> meg at meg-desktop:~$ cd /var/backup
> bash: cd: /var/backup: No such file or directory
> meg at meg-desktop:~$ cd /var
> meg at meg-desktop:/var$ ls -l
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2007-10-04 07:38 backups
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root  4096 2007-09-23 19:33 cache
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2007-10-02 07:35 crash
> drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 2007-08-31 18:13 games
> drwxr-xr-x 63 root root  4096 2007-10-04 07:45 lib
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root staff 4096 2006-10-19 18:49 local
> drwxrwxrwt  3 root root    80 2007-10-05 12:34 lock
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root  4096 2007-10-05 12:34 log
> drwxrwsr-x  2 root mail  4096 2007-10-04 07:48 mail
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2006-10-25 09:26 opt
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root   640 2007-10-05 15:20 run
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root root  4096 2007-09-23 19:33 spool
> drwxrwxrwt  4 root root  4096 2007-10-05 12:20 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2007-09-23 19:33 www
> meg at meg-desktop:/var$
>
> Thank you
>
> Megan
>
> On 10/5/07, SteVe Cook <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ashley Benton wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone has an idea why lscpi and cat xorg.conf show me two
> > > different cards but  only one. Is it possible that one use the nVidia
> > > binary driver and one the nVidia legacy driver and that would be why
> > > only one of the card appears?
> > > Thank you
> > > Megan
> > >
> > xorg.conf doesn't show any cards, it's just a label.  You can put
> > anything there.
> > At this point we need to get the original card working. What I would do
> > is first check the CMOS/BIOS settings.  Normally under Integrated
> > Peripherals the is a setting VGA Boot from or init, set this to AGP or
> > onboard.  The machine should then use the original video.  I would also
> > restore the original xorg.conf to get it back to the state it was in
> > before the new card was installed.  If we can get it back to that state
> > we have a known functioning system to start from.
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
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