Am Freitag, 21. April 2006 08:56 schrieb michael norman:
Running SUSE 10.0 with a geforce 6600 video card which has the facility to run two moniters and I'd like to try that with Xinerma. But I can't find the options in Sax to set it up. Can you point me in the right direction please ?
Mike
First of all, have you installed the official nVidia drivers? The OSS versions don't support multi-head operation. Just use YOU and select the nVidia drivers. Next, open YaST or Sax from the KDE/Gnome menu and (from YaST select hardware->graphic card and monitor). If you have a second monitor plugged in, you should see a second monitor tab appear to control its settings. By default the monitors will mirror each other. I think they also need to both be connected at boot for the second one to be recognised the first time, not sure if the sax routines will pick it up if it is connected later (I know I had problems under 8.n and 9.n when trying that). Then further down the tab there should be a button for multi-monitor usage, you just need to select Xinerama mode. ATi's driver installer cause Sax to barf on this machine, so I can't currently double check the exact layout, but googling for SUSE and Xinerama should bring up some decent howto's, that's how I learnt how I trouble shooted it the first time. -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck