I can't get dual monitor single desktop with SUSE

[conradinsf]

Hi everybody.

I need help setting up my desktop with newly installed SUSE 10. Currently I have a dual-monitor setup (2xDell 1905FP) and NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vid card, which works great with XP and Ubuntu. I used a neat little program called "nvidia-settings" for Ubuntu.

However, I cannot get it out of twin-view mode in SUSE. At least I no longer have to unplug one monitor when I boot up with SUSE (which I have to do with Fedora, which is such a P.I.T.A.!!!) With Fedora, I cannot even get twin-view let alone dual monitor single desktop (which is another problem altogether). With SUSE, I've tried all the different configs, but everytime I change something in the Display feature to activate the second monitor single desktop mode and restart, it goes back to the original twin-view config.

Is there a similar program(?) for SUSE to let me do this? Or do I just need to download a driver from NVIDIA? The last time I did this, I ended up with errors on my X-server/xorg files... and I finally decided to reinstall SUSE and now it is fully functional.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

[gogalthorp]

AFAIK you must install the NVIDIA driver. You might make sure you card is supported with the newest driver you may need a older one.

[oz]

I'm pretty sure that video card can use the latest nvidia drivers. You can check on it to make sure here:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

[conradinsf]

I'm pretty sure that video card can use the latest nvidia drivers. You can check on it to make sure here:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

That did the trick. There is a site for an NVIDIA Installer "How-To" for SUSE users. Suse recommends using YaST for installation of the NVIDIA driver, and it makes it so much more simple. I had such a hard time installing this on Fedora that I decided to give up on dual-monitor with Fedora (for now until Fedora can get a simpler way of having an "nvidia-settings" type ease of use).

Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users

[dirk_diggler]

That did the trick. There is a site for an NVIDIA Installer "How-To" for SUSE users. Suse recommends using YaST for installation of the NVIDIA driver, and it makes it so much more simple. I had such a hard time installing this on Fedora that I decided to give up on dual-monitor with Fedora (for now until Fedora can get a simpler way of having an "nvidia-settings" type ease of use).

Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users

Thanks for the tip. This worked beautifully for me with OpenSuse and dual-monitor. I spent two weeks troubleshooting this unsuccessfully. Your method took about 15 minutes (with some goofing-off in between) and worked immediately!

If only other things can work as easily.