On 24/06/2008, Jenny Hopkins hopkins.jenny@gmail.com wrote:
Hullo there,
I've bought a PNY geforce 7600GS graphics card, with VGA and dual link DVI. I then bought a second monitor - an HP w1907v widescreen with recommended res of 1440x900@60. The first monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 913N.
This is now working. It was a bit of a pulavah. Found I probably needed nvidia driver rather than nv. Realised i was missing the non-free in my lenny sources list, so installed that and the nvidia stuff. However, when i tried to build the nvidia module using these tools it transpired that lenny does not have the required nvidia-kernel-sources. It's in etch and sid, but not lenny. Too many dependencies were required, so that was that down the drain.
Gave up, got the proprietary driver from nvidia and had to build that, using export CC=gcc-4.1 to get compiler version same as kernel build.
Ran nvidia-xconfig --twinview. Started x and tweaked the nvidia X configuration tool. Restarted.
Shiny, happy screens!
Thanks to David and all on irc for help with this.
Jenny