Vacation, at last! First on my TODO list is to get the second monitor output working on my Dell 8600c. When following the NVIDIA README instructions I get some really weird output. It seems the NVIDIA driver does not detect the presence of the second monitor (tried with both Iiyama 17” and a 32” JVC LCD HDTV). Instead, it maps both screen on the internal flatpanel display, which produces a really funny effect of having both screen framebuffers mapped to 0,0 of the DFP screen!
The magic configuration parameter is ConnectedMonitor. The NVIDIA driver detected “DFP-0, CRT-0” by default when dual screen is configured. The trick is to specify a ConnectedMonitor option in both Screen sections, each specifying either “DFP-0” or “CRT-0”. The relevant parts of the xorg.confg are shown below:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go 5200]-1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
...
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"
...
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go 5200]-0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
...
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT-0"
...
EndSection
Also note the separate monitor definition references. I had to force the CRT-0 specs to VertRefresh 60HZ as my JVC LCD HDTV only accepts VGA signals which have a vertical refresh of 60HZ, anything above or below will produce a nice blue screen.
Download the full xorg.conf with dual screen setup
