Re: questions on dual monitors/second monitor/external monitor

Ok, I figured it out. see below. Note that there is a significant (in my case
at least) omission in the ubuntuforums HOWTO wrt the nvidia 1.0-9755 install
instructions, and also the corresponding nvnews.net howto has an error (and
commits the same omission).

[dell d820, nvidia quadro nvs 120m, ubuntu 6.10]

=JeffH


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Subject: Re: nvidia linux driver bug?
From: Jeff.Hodges@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:46:13 -0700
To: linux-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Jeff.Hodges@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ok, I figured it out. thanks for your help.

some more poking around turned up this page..

HOWTO: Install Latest NVIDIA Display Driver (Directly from Nvidia: current
1.0-9755)
<http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=336412>


Which for the most part is correct, but doesn't mention that this file might
exist..

/etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel

..but it did on my system. Removing that file was key.


Also, you folks' instructions at..

Installing NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers on recent distributions (FC, Ubuntu,
etc)
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490


..have an error in that they say..

Alternatively, you can edit the /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules
configuration file and disable the NVIDIA linux-restricted kernel modules
(nvidia, nvidia_legacy) via:

DISABLED_MODULES="nv"


However, the correct file to edit (per the ubuntuforums page mentioned above)
is actually "/etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common".

So following the directions with those two fixes worked for me.

thanks,

=JeffH



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