[ale] Two monitors in Ubuntu (was Re: What's the best geek store in Atlanta area?)

[Mike Harrison]

> Hey Mike, did you get dual screens working on a single Ubuntu PC?  I
> tried that recently to no avail.  If you got it working, which video
> card(s) did you use?

nvidia.

xorg.con looks like:

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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder3)  Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "ServerLayout"
     Identifier     "Default Layout"
     Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
     InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
     InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Module"
     Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
     Driver         "kbd"
     Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
     Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier     "Configured Mouse"
     Driver         "mouse"
     Option         "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
     Identifier     "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Device"
     Identifier     "Configured Video Device"
     Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
     Identifier     "Default Screen"
     Device         "Configured Video Device"
     Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
     DefaultDepth    24
     Option         "NoLogo" "True"
     Option "TwinView"
     Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
     SubSection     "Display"
         Depth       24
         Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
     EndSubSection
EndSection