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Hi all:
I've been using my geforce FX5200 nvidia card single monitor, just a CRT plugged into the VGA port. I had two CRTs and used a VGA->DVI adapter to attempt to get the second monitor to show (the card has a DVI and a VGA). I was never able to get the second screen to work that way, I don't know if the adapter was bad or the wrong one, but nonetheless it didn't work. I finally got a "DVI monitor." What's the easiest way to get this second monitor to work?
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I'd plug it in using DVI and see what happens. DVI is a strange beast, and not all DVI ports are equal. There are a number of specifications, one of which includes Analogue and Digital signals (DVI-I), it may be that your GFX card does not support this mode, hence why your CRT wouldn't work. If you plug the DVI into the new monitor, and use the nvidia-settings tool, you should find that the new monitor is listed, and you can configure it to use twinview, and hence have both monitors active.
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So, I just got two 20" acer x203h's. I can connect one through the VGA port -the other through DVI. They should both be picked up on the nvidia-settings tool?
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They should both be picked up on the nvidia-settings tool?
In theory yes, but in practice there was a problem (or possibly a "feature") on some nvidia cards (or maybe a limitation in the driver) which I also experienced on FX5500 where you couldn't use certain pipes in combination. For example using VGA+TV-Out was not possible so you would have to get a vga-to-dvi adapter and use DVI+TV-Out, which was possible. Since your first try with two CRT monitors failed it might be that your can't use VGA+DVI in combination.
Edit: unfortunately it was so long ago that I don't have any resources on this. But a quick search now brought me to another example of this
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=7530
Last edited by anrxc (2009-08-24 19:44:19)
You need to install an RTFM interface.
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*Sigh, so apparently all fx5200's are different. I have a PNY that has a VGA, S-Video, and DVI-D. Apparently the only ones that allow DVI & VGA have the DVI-I (the one with the bar and the 4 pins around the bar).
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