<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <pre wrap=""> <blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">what version of ubuntu do you have installed? that might be helpful at some point...</pre></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">I've only ever done dual-monitor setups with twin-head cards...I've never had to deal with a situation of using multiple graphics cards, and I don't have any to experiment with, so unfortunately I can't verify or deny what's happening to you. however, I have to ask... why bother doing it this way at all? If you have a reasonably modern graphics card, it will have dual monitor ports on it. If the issue is a DVI/VGA thing, then there's still the adapters, which are dirt cheap: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812267001">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812267001</a> </pre> </blockquote>ubuntu 9.04 64bit. the onboard card is only 7050, crap. 256mb. i dont think its dual head, has a dvi port and vga though. and the 9600GT 500mb card has a dvi and a hdmi port. yes a i have a vga to dvi adaptor.. i'm downloading the latest driver now.. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html">http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html</a> </pre> </body> </html>