[NTLUG:Discuss] Need X Wizard on FC3 / nVidia GeForce2Go / single-view switched to TwinView on Dell Inspiron 4100 Laptop

[David Simmons, PE]

Scenario:  laptop in office recently upgraded to FC3 & Evolution 2 (the
laptop's main purpose) - of which it get's VNC'ed into for email.

On the road:  this laptop becomes 'main machine'.  At one location on
the road, I was able to setup two monitors (ie. onboard LCD screen and
external CRT) by installing the nVidia driver and
configuring /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the TwinView options.

Problem:  I now have multiple xorg.conf files..(only one in use at a
time - cp the specific one when needed) - one for single view, one for
original 'nv' driver, one for TwinView.  Problem is that when I copy new
file and 'change-mode' (ie leaving that office and going back to just
LCD screen) - the X server doesn't start!  The machine boots...and text
part starts...but when switching over to graphical
display...start..start..then total black.  I've even let it sit for an
hour hoping it would correct itself.  The log of /var/log/xorg.0.log
that failed (didn't have any ( ) in it?!) - ended with:

(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce2 Go
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 03.11.01.38.a8
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are not supported on this GPU
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 4X
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 32768 kBytes
(II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): DFP-0
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display device DFP-0: maximum pixel clock at  8 bpp: 350
MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display device DFP-0: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 350
MHz
(--) NVIDIA(0): Display device DFP-0: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 300
MHz
(II) Loading sub module "ddc"
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(END)


Any initial ideas - is it just not as simple as "cp xorg.conf.TWINView
xorg.conf" in reconfiguring the X display? (rebooting machine after file
copy)?!?

Thanks in advance - Dave