> Steven Chall wrote:
> > I've just installed CentOS 6.2 on an HP xw8600 with two NVidia
GeForce
> > 8800 GT video cards in it. I have two Dell monitors than ran
configured
> > as a single contiguous desktop when this was a Windows 7 machine.
I've
> > only been able to access one of the two monitors under CentOS,
although
> > the system demonstrates some awareness of the second GPU/monitor,
because
> <snip>
> Either install the proprietary NVidia driver, d/l from their website, by
> hand, or install kmod-nvidia from elrepo, which will build it
> automagically. In either case, it will install an NVidia control panel in
> your menus, and you can select twinview.
>
> mark, on a Dell Precision with that as he types
>
<snip>
Thanks, Mark, B.J., the elrepo route worked. There was a small hitch in that
the "Twinview" option wasn't available (it was present but grayed
out) on the NVidia control panel, but entering nvidia-xconfig --twinview on the
command line as root did the trick.
Steve
-Steve Chall
Senior Research Software Developer
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
Phone: 919-681-9639
Email: stevec at renci.org
