Hi Ky!
Ah. I'll look in there and see if anything makes sense. I'm not sure I
actually have any use for 2 vidcards, but this particular motherboard
has dedicated dual video slots, and someone gift me a matched pair of
cards (which the motherboard requires for it to work; it doesn't like
unmatched cards), so I figured this was a good place for 'em.
I don't think you need much in xorg.conf. I just put enough in mine to load the driver (nvidia in my case) so it loads that driver instead of the
default
just about 10 lines or so. X.org uses default for the rest and it works
good
for me.
I don't even see a brand on these cards. Nor anything obvious on
the BIOS boot screen either. Heatsink permanently attached over
the main chip is not helpful.
Not sure if this is right as don't have a Linux machine up I can test
on, but try the 'ls' with the appropriate switch. Think it's 'lspci' to
list devices with a PCI connector. <Looking in the book and what I'm
wanting isn't listed.>
<checking my on-line notes> OK, I was right: 'lspci -v' would list pci
devices, and the -v switch would be vebrose/full/complete.
'hwinfo' might also be helpful.
Anything in the System Info (desktop's GUI tab, at upper left).
<boots into Mint>
<looks in display settings hoping it IDs the vidcard>
And.... at that point it locked up solid before display settings
window finished loading up. No mouse, no keyboard response, no three-finger-salute, no HD activity, nothing. After a while I
gave up and hit the reset switch, which seems to have totally
killed Mint, cuz now it says:
error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd1'
(which would be the physical drive it lives on)
and then
entering rescue mode
grub rescue>
which looks like a prompt, and I can type at it, but isn't
useful.
ls lists the various hd* (filesystem), which isn't useful either.
this apparently is the fixit process, http://askubuntu.com/questions/142300/fixing-grub-error-error-unkn own-filesyste
which I am not about to do.
This looks saner http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub-with-rescatux/
BUT...
Any OS that can suicide from a lockup/reset is not stable enough
to use. Especially when said gun-in-the-mouth lockup resulted
from merely running one of its own internal functions.
<stumps off muttering about how Windows has NEVER done that to
me, and do we see yet why linux never got beyond 1%
desktop-market penetration?>
There is also a GUI setup that is installed with the nvidia driver that can
b
used to setup your xorg.conf. IIRC there is a setup in there for more than
on
monitor but I have never used it.
It is (er, was) "using no proprietary drivers" and I don't know
if nvidia is among those or not. There doesn't seem to be
anything like Device Manager.
KM> That's probably where you can edit workspace colors too, in that
Maybe, but I don't think so. That'll likely need to be setup through your
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