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Feisty Fawn & SL on a dual screen??

Tasman Perth
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Join date: 7 Jun 2005
Posts: 225
05-25-2007 08:35
I used to be a died-in-the-wool RedHat/CentOS/Fedora kind of gal, but recently started playing with Ubuntu, specifically Feisty Fawn (where DO they get these cutesy names?), actually the version of Feisty Fawn called "Ubuntu Studio 7.04".. I've been looking for a distro that packaged everything needed for video/image/sound editing.. It appears that this is THAT distro, in my opinion.. The install was a piece of cake, and everything just-worked, including VMWare server AND SecondLife, once I installed the restricted nvidia video driver.. Now to the one item that is a pain in the neck.. I have a dual monitor setup, with an NVidia GeForce7100 video card. When I first installed the "restricted" Nvidia driver, and tested the SL client for the first time, I was pleasantly surprised that it worked great.. but of course it defaulted to single monitor.. I ran the nvidia-config panel, and switched to "twin-view", which worked ok, and for the first couple of times, SL also worked.. However, recently SL has developed the dreaded "can't create window" error when I try to start it. I've since switched back to original (single-screen) config by copying back my original xorg.conf file.. Is there some magic incantation I'm missing to get both dual screen AND SL working at the same time??

Tas
Andee Broek
Registered User
Join date: 31 May 2007
Posts: 2
05-31-2007 13:19
I haven't tried the latest release (will download tomorrow) but the previous release worked fine for me with Fiesty/Nvidia dual-screen combo (I use at work daily). I'll try the new release tomorrow and post here (if I can find it!)
Charles Street
Registered User
Join date: 30 Jul 2004
Posts: 27
06-08-2007 02:32
go into terminal and type: nvidia-settings
it should tell you what you need....
or try updating the nvidia drivers from nvidia.com....

... be sure to check http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php... there are a lot of people there!
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