> Steven Chall wrote: > > I've just installed CentOS 6.2 on an HP xw8600 with two NVidia GeForce > > 8800 GT video cards in it. I have two Dell monitors than ran configured > > as a single contiguous desktop when this was a Windows 7 machine. I've > > only been able to access one of the two monitors under CentOS, although > > the system demonstrates some awareness of the second GPU/monitor, because > <snip> > Either install the proprietary NVidia driver, d/l from their website, by > hand, or install kmod-nvidia from elrepo, which will build it > automagically. In either case, it will install an NVidia control panel in > your menus, and you can select twinview. > > mark, on a Dell Precision with that as he types > <snip> Thanks, Mark, B.J., the elrepo route worked. There was a small hitch in that the "Twinview" option wasn't available (it was present but grayed out) on the NVidia control panel, but entering nvidia-xconfig --twinview on the command line as root did the trick. Steve -Steve Chall Senior Research Software Developer Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) Phone: 919-681-9639 Email: stevec at renci.org