twinscreen monitor cabling

[rsoperuk]

Firstly excuse my ignorance, I have a Nvidia Quadro2 Pro card and want to make use of the twin screen feature. I notice the card has two video outputs a DVI-I (dual) and a 15 pin standard VGA analog connector. I want to attach two analog monitors to the card and run it in twinscreen mode- is this possible? If so please advise what I need from a cabling/adapter point of view. My intention is to use RH Linux 7.2 and XFree86 to drive the card eventually.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Robin

[fishlung]

Looks like you'll need to purchase one of these somewhere:
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduct.asp?description=14-999-504&depa=0

:)

[marqmajere]

I used to have an extra adapter, but it was lost when my apt caught fire. Once you get one of those, you shouldn't have problems running the two monitors.

[rsoperuk]

I'm still mystified by this:

Would both analog monitors connect to the DVI port (using some sort of splitter/adapter) or would one be connected to the 15 Pin VGA port and one to the DVI.

I have tried connecting one monitor to the VGA output and one to the DVI port (using a adapter) already and both monitors display the same thing (windows desktop) but not in twin screen mode.
Also windows does not detect that I have two monitors & neither does the NVIVIA configuration software.

Someone suggested that twin screen will only work with two digital screens using this card, Is this true?

Thanks in advance

Regards
Robin

[woz_mann]

ahhh what the prob is that when u have the two monitors connected u have to go into your display control panal (or nView) and tell it that u want to display different images on each monitors. Default is set to be "mirror" displays