Multiple Video Cards

[phill1967]

I'm having difficulties setting up multiple video cards on F16 (64). The motherboard has inbuilt intel chip set and I have a Nvidia gforce series 8 video card installed.

lspci indicates both cards on the system

Fedora only sets up the intel graphics but not the Nvidia. I only get one monitor in the Displays setting dialog. I should have at least two. Actually the Nvidia is a twin head device so I should get three monitors.

I have tried to set up the Nvidia drivers using both the yum method and the nvidia method but both kill the install as it won't complete the boot process either way.

There doesn't seem to be an xorg config file so I can't modify that either.

I am at the end of my knowlege. So where do I go from here?

btw when a second monitor is connected (ie to nvidia card), I get a blank screen with the fedora symbol but the system won't detect that monitor

[george_toolan]

What exactly do you want?

If you just want to connect two monitors to your computer then disable the onboard graphics, install the nvidia proprietary driver and use the nvidia configuration program to setup your monitors.

[Adunaic]

How do you disable the onboard graphics? On my previous laptop this could be done from bios. On my new one it cannot.

[george_toolan]

Please be more specific.

What kind of notebook is it and what graphics chips does it have?

Maybe try the laptop section?

[poflynn]

Thanks all.

I ended up disabling the onboard onboard graphics and just using the 2 monitors off the Nvidia card. Bit of a shame though.

[Penguinclaw]

Am I going mad or are you using three user names.... or do you have split personality disorder.... or are you three seperate users connected telepathically????? I'm so confused :(