EN7300GT & Dual Head

[Hades2000]

Hi

I need some help. I'm very new to this and haven't got a clue how to do this.

I currently have Ubuntu Linux (Dapper) on a PC with a nVidia EN7300GT configured for dual head using two CRT's.

That all works... however I also use this machine to play games, many of which play full-screen. It's really annoying when some games try to span the two screens.

Is there any way I could have a bash script or something to automatically change the xorg.conf file to enable/disable dual-head.

I don't mind having to restart the X-Server manually after using the script... just want a script to do the work of sudo'ing the changes to the conf file.

Any ideas?

[merrick]

One way to do this is to make two copies of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

e.g xorg.conf.single
xorg.conf.dual

and make /etc/X11/xorg.conf a symlink to point to either one.

Using the script below(call it xswitch.sh or something) you can switch the symlink to point to the conf file of choice
e.g 'xswitch.sh s' removes old xorg.conf symlink & makes it point to xorg.conf.single

'xswitch.sh d' removes old xorg.conf symlink & makes it point to xorg.conf.dual

Hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X server


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#!/bin/sh

cmdarg=$1

echo $cmdarg
cd /etc/X11

if [ $cmdarg = "s" ] ; then
rm -f xorg.conf
ln -s xorg.conf.single xorg.conf
fi

if [ $cmdarg = 'd' ] ; then
rm -f xorg.conf
ln -s xorg.conf.dual xorg.conf
fi

[Hades2000]

Thanks... that's just what I was looking for.