NVIDIA HELP! newbie

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This is my first post on this forum and my 2nd linux installation, so am very new to this.

I have run into a few issues that i have been trying to battle through but have got a little stuck, the main one being setting up my graphics card, which i beleive to be a NVIDA Geforce 6600GT agp 8x.

Basically i am trying to get dual view set up and get the desktop nvidia toys on so i have more fancyish buttons to press at. :rolleyes:

I looked through the forum and found a post with a command in which i pasted into a terminal and ran, it all seemed to go ok and i assume it was a different driver for the card, until i re-booted. On the boot screen it then said unable to allocate nvidia kernal v 2.6.18.1.2849 (or something along the lines of) :(

I then had to go through some options to get the x server to work, which it finally did. then the above warning did not come on upon re-boot.

Then when i changed to dual view the x server would not start again? im a little unstuck here and any help is well appreciated.although it needs to be simple to understand pls, unfortunately until present i have been a windows user!

Also is this card any good for gaming or is an upgrade worthwhile to save all this hastle?

Thanks

[jim]

Do you have the nvidia settings menu option?

Applications --> System Tools--> Nvidia Settings

make changes here and save to xorg.conf

if you do not have the menu option it appears that you do not have the nvidia rpm installed


http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99285&highlight=Nvidia

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The menu is there but it only gives me 5 options, as follows:

Enable tool tips,
Display status bar,
Slider text entries,
Include x display names in the config file,
Show "really quiet?" dialogue,

These are all check boxes.

I changed to dual view through, Applications --> Administration --> Display, which worked until i rebooted. then the x server problem popped up.

i have a feeling i may have made a boob of the setup process, this is the first time i have used the linux terminal.

Is the nvidia menu that i have correctly installed or is that simply the only options i can get for my hardware? seems a bit lame thats all.

[jim]

you'll need to use the nvidia configuration tool to set up dual display or Twinview the system-vconfig-display crashes with nvidia cards

for the nvidia menu on the left click the second option and o nthe right there should be the option to configure TwinView

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There is only the one option on the left,

Nvidia - settings configuration, i was not aware there should be more.

The title of thie window is nvidia x server settings, is this the correct window as it is the only nvidia item that i could find.

[Seve]

Hello:
Which drivers to you have installed?

Seve