nightlyraver
04-04-03, 01:15 PM
OK, I just installed the new drivers for my nVidia GeForce ti4200 on my Athlon 2000+ XP. I'm currently running redhat8 and almost always use kde. I'm not at my comp. right now as I am at work so I can't really give you anymore specs than that.
Last night I installed the new drivers off the nVidia site. Installed them as per instructions and edited my XF86Config file as instructed. So far so good. Now, one of the reasons I installed linux was because a friend of mine said I could use my 2 monitors, 2 keyboards and 2 mice to emulate 2 workstations. That seemed like a good idea and low and behold there were instructions on how to do just that in the README that came with the drivers. I edited my XF86config as instructed in the bottom of the README. One of the only things that I did that wasn't in the instructions was adding the 2nd monitor to the XF86config which for some reason was not there. Before editing the file both screens (Samsung 15" and Philips 19") showed the same thing. After editing the file the system booted up and the 19" was blank and the 15" had the regular logon screen. I was able to logon and use only the second monitor. After reading a thread on this board, I saw something about a command that I needed to type in to start X on the other monitor. Is this so? I don't even get a command line on the other monitor - just a blank screen.
Discouraged, I decided to setup the monitors using TwinView. Worked absolutely perfectly. However, in XP you can tell the computer to display windows that pop-up in the screen that they originated from (ie. if you double-click on a link on monitor 2, the window pops up in monitor 2). Is there a way to do this in redhat8? XP also "remembers" which monitor different windows were last opened in and you can set it to open windows from their last know positions. Again, can this be done in redhat8?
Ok, almost done. Assuming that I can get multiple X screens going AND get TwinView running the way I want it, I would want to have the option to boot in either TwinView mode OR MultiX mode. Is there a way for me to configure GRUB so I can do this or will i have to hack it in some way???
Unrelated question: I have a Promise 376? raid controller on my motherboard and I have a single 20gig IDE drive plugged into it yet I can't seem to mount it. Any suggestions???
Last night I installed the new drivers off the nVidia site. Installed them as per instructions and edited my XF86Config file as instructed. So far so good. Now, one of the reasons I installed linux was because a friend of mine said I could use my 2 monitors, 2 keyboards and 2 mice to emulate 2 workstations. That seemed like a good idea and low and behold there were instructions on how to do just that in the README that came with the drivers. I edited my XF86config as instructed in the bottom of the README. One of the only things that I did that wasn't in the instructions was adding the 2nd monitor to the XF86config which for some reason was not there. Before editing the file both screens (Samsung 15" and Philips 19") showed the same thing. After editing the file the system booted up and the 19" was blank and the 15" had the regular logon screen. I was able to logon and use only the second monitor. After reading a thread on this board, I saw something about a command that I needed to type in to start X on the other monitor. Is this so? I don't even get a command line on the other monitor - just a blank screen.
Discouraged, I decided to setup the monitors using TwinView. Worked absolutely perfectly. However, in XP you can tell the computer to display windows that pop-up in the screen that they originated from (ie. if you double-click on a link on monitor 2, the window pops up in monitor 2). Is there a way to do this in redhat8? XP also "remembers" which monitor different windows were last opened in and you can set it to open windows from their last know positions. Again, can this be done in redhat8?
Ok, almost done. Assuming that I can get multiple X screens going AND get TwinView running the way I want it, I would want to have the option to boot in either TwinView mode OR MultiX mode. Is there a way for me to configure GRUB so I can do this or will i have to hack it in some way???
Unrelated question: I have a Promise 376? raid controller on my motherboard and I have a single 20gig IDE drive plugged into it yet I can't seem to mount it. Any suggestions???