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  1. Bug #114353
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Comment 3 for bug 114353

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Kevin Gabbert (kevin-kevingabbert) wrote : Re: [nvidia-glx] Feisty won't remember my dual monitor setup

I just got it working. I bought "Hacking Ubuntu" at the bookstore, and followed its instructions for TwinView. I put the following into /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600]"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "TwinView"
    Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768"
    Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT,CRT"
    Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "UseEdidFreqs"
    Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "UseEdidFreqs"
# Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "24-80"
# Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-75"
EndSection

this makes it work perfectly!

I guess the error must have been that SysInfo wasn't saving its modifications to xorg, so perhaps I should have run it as sudo. I was just selecting it from the menu. Thats too bad, an XP convert would never know to do that, and SysInfo would just fail to work for them. I think that usability bit should be fixed.

 Whatever the case, this fixes it so you can close this one.

Kevin