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I just bought a new monitor and wanted to setup a multi-display with my old CRT. I tried googling for this but either I'm searching for the wrong terms or there's just no up to date info about what I want to do...

I have an NVIDIA GeForce 7300GS which has an S-Video, D-Sub and DVI input, I'm using the D-Sub and DVI inputs and it's working... well pretty crappy (due ot different sizes and refresh rates) on windows but it works. I was wondering how I would go about setting this up on debian?

I've read about Xinerama being the xorg extension that supports this, and it seems that all I need to do is add another monitor section in xorg.conf and it should work?

Please help.

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my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2006-10-31 09:07.

I'll post my xorg.conf below as one possibility. In my case the second monitor is a TV. You'd have to edit the parts for the TV, but it will point you in the right direction, IF
simultaneous dvi and vga out is supported using this config.

Otherwise, I'd suggest reading the nvidia readme (you can find it on nvidia website).

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder26) Mon May 15 14:17:32 PDT 2006

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
Screen 1 "Screen1" leftOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/etc/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30-50
VertRefresh 60
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
# Option "TVStandard" "HD1080i"
Option "TVStandard" "HD480p"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
# Modes "1280x720" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Modes "720x480" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

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