I just finished installing 11.1. I have 2 monitors. In 10.3 i set them up fine, but when i try to set them up here, the two monitors are clones and when i go into yast, there is no place to check off dual monitors. Help!!
I am having the same problem. I switched to openSuSE from Ubuntu, and I am running it on my laptop with a Hyundai Imagequest L90D+ monitor that I want to use. I read through some tutorials and they all say to go to Control Center -> Graphics Card and Monitor and then go to Dual Head Mode, but for me Dual Head Mode is unselectable. I try it with my other monitor plugged in and turned on, and still no luck. Any ideas? I have a nVidia card.
Hi Guys
devgru2011
I just finished installing 11.1. I have 2 monitors. In 10.3 i set them up fine, but when i try to set them up here, the two monitors are clones and when i go into yast, there is no place to check off dual monitors. Help!!
Please let us know what type of video card you have.
nbakewell
I am having the same problem. I switched to openSuSE from Ubuntu, and I am running it on my laptop with a Hyundai Imagequest L90D+ monitor that I want to use. I read through some tutorials and they all say to go to Control Center -> Graphics Card and Monitor and then go to Dual Head Mode, but for me Dual Head Mode is unselectable. I try it with my other monitor plugged in and turned on, and still no luck. Any ideas? I have a nVidia card.
Have you installed the NVIDIA proprietary drivers?
If you have the drivers installed, try executing the following command from a terminal window in KDE/GNOME or whatever your flavor of desktop environment…
kdesu nvidia-settings
this is the tool that comes with the NVIDIA proprietary drivers. I would recommend using this instead of Sax2 to configure your video card.
How do I install the nvidia drivers? Is that the nvidia-settings?
You can install them from YaST
YaST –> Software –> Software management
Do a search for Nvidia and install the driver from there.
After it has been installed, go to one of the virtual consoles by pressing CTRL + ALT + F1 (you can press F1 through F6)
issue the following commands
sudo /sbin/init 3
sudo sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
check to see if the NVIDIA graphics card is detected in Sax2 and that 3D support is checked. ( You can set up your dual monitors in here as well. I still think it is best to use the nvidia-settings utility to do that though…)
exit sax2
issue the following command
sudo /sbin/init 5
then log back into your desktop environment and run the following from the terminal
kdesu nvidia-settings
You can configure your dual monitor setup in there!
If you have problems with the YaST install (although i dont imagine you will have any) or if you want the latest and greatest NVIDIA driver, you can install it from their web page
There are instructions on the page for installing it.
Thanks pimanac. However, when I go into YaST and do a search for “Nvidia”, the only thing that comes up is:
asusfan
Fan control for Nvidia-based ASUS graphics cards
I do not see any drivers?
You will need to install the NVIDIA repository in YaST for your version of opensuse
YaST → Software Management → Repositories
add the following URL
http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1/
you may also want to check this out
Hmm now I am getting an error. I went to the nvidia page link you gave me and used the 1-click install, which was working nicely until about halfway through when it keeps giving me this error:
Cannot access installation media (Medium 1). Check whether the server is accessible.
More info:
Download (curl) error for ‘http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1/repodata/repomd.xml’:
Error code:
Error message: Couldn’t resolve host ‘http.download.nvidia.com’
Is the nvidia server just down right now?
maybe their server is down? Try adding it to the repository manager in yast. If that doesnt work, id say its the nvidia server
You could try adding it via
“Community repositories” instead of via an url, NVIDIA should be listed among them.
Thanks, that worked 
Last question - now I have dual monitors working nicely, except that my laptop screen is 1280x800 and my flatscreen is 1280 x 1024, so my laptop has an “extra” 224 pixels on the bottom of the screen - such that I can move my mouse down and instead of stopping at the bottom of the laptop screen, it will continue to disappear for 224 px. Is there anyway to fix this?
Same problem for me. Oddly enough clicking “Retry” seems to fix this every time it comes up.