Dual Screen

[Lantesh]

Assuming you are actually running the nVidia driver you also will want to install the nvidia-settings package. Then run nvidia-settings as root and you will have far better choices in how to set up your dual monitors.

[AK Dave]

Click on Envy.

[Lantesh]

how do I install those? Can I do it while x is running?

In a terminal type:

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sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

After installation you can run it from the new entry that will be created in your start menu, but running it from here will not run it as root, and you need to run it as root if you want to save any changes you make to your xorg.conf file. This is the file that x windows stores it's settings in. You will notice after you've launched nvidia-settings that there will be a button you can press to save the settings to the file, but it won't work if you are not running the utility as root.

To launch nvidia-settings as root do it in a terminal window with this command.

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sudo nvidia-settings