Dual Monitors

[scouser73]

[Solved] I would like to have two monitors set up for Ubuntu 9.04, any help would be appreciated.

[bear24rw]

does you graphics card have two vga or dvi ports?

[scouser73]

I have one graphics card with a VGA, S-Video and DVI connection.

[fluffman86]

and have you plugged the two monitors in the graphics card? What happened? What's the model of the card? more info plx.

[eldragon]

for a guy with over 400 posts of experience, you are providing too little information

[fluffman86]

for a guy with over 400 posts of experience, you are providing too little information

gaah! I totally missed his post count. That makes this either funny or scary. Not sure which...

[scouser73]

Sorry for not being clear, what I would like to achieve is to have dual monitors, I have an nVidia GeForce 6200 card. The graphics card has one VGA, one S-Video & one DVI connection.

Currently I have not purchased a second monitor but I am buying one tomorrow.

[fluffman86]

Ok, so if you're currently using a VGA monitor, then your new one should be DVI. If you already use DVI, then your new monitor will need a DVI-VGA converter. I'm sure you already have your nVidia drivers installed, and you will also want to install the nvidia-settings package with apt-get or synaptic. How you set it up from there will be up to personal preference, but it really helps if the monitors are the same size/resolution.

[scouser73]

Thanks for the help, I'm sorry about not giving all the information in the first place. Thanks once again.

[fluffman86]

No problem. I'm subscribed to this thread and have the same video card as you, so I'll keep my eye on this if you need any more help.