I installed the nvidia drivers and used the nvidia control panel applet to edit xorg.conf for dualhead use. I saved and rebooted. On reboot, monitor 0 and 1 both activate(yay!), but I can't actually do anything in monitor 1(boo!). Trying to move an application over to 1 doesn't work(because it's a separate x session), so I tried adding a mint menu to the task bar. When I click on the menu on the taskbar in monitor 1, it opens in monitor 0. Other than adding taskbars, I can't actually do anything in monitor 1.
Here's my xorg.conf generated by the nvidia applet:
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nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@palmer) Sun Feb 1 20:21:04 UTC 2009
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Proview"
HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Proview"
HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; CRT-0: 1024x768 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
# generated from default
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 1440 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 6800 GT"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 6800 GT"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection
thanks,
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