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Somehow, for unknown reason, Fedora 7 is more like embrace ATI than Nvidia. I have two computer boxes, one was installed ATI video card and the other was installed Nvidia video card, both of them are dual head. For the ATI one, I just enabled dual head display after installation of Fedora 7. Then, it worked. For the Nvidia one, I have to download the kernel for nvidia. I don’t mean to compare these two video cards. I’d like share my xrog.conf file in here for those who have encountered the same problem as me.

First, we need to install kernal to support Nvidia.

yum -y install kmod-nvidia-100.14.19-1.2.6.22.7_85.fc7.i686

Then, after reboot the box, you may change /etc/X11/xrog.conf to the following.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Wed Sep 12 14:29:35 PDT 2007

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “dual head configuration”
Screen 0 “Screen0″ LeftOf “Screen1″
Screen 1 “Screen1″ 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard0″ “Mouse0″
EndSection

Section “Files”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “glx”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
# generated from default
Identifier “Mouse0″
Driver “mouse”
Option “Protocol” “auto”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “no”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Keyboard0″
Driver “kbd”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0″
VendorName “Monitor Vendor”
ModelName “Monitor 1024×768″
HorizSync 31.5 – 57.0
VertRefresh 50.0 – 70.0
Option “dpms”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor1″
VendorName “Monitor Vendor” ModelName “Monitor 1024×768″
HorizSync 31.5 – 57.0
VertRefresh 50.0 – 70.0
Option “dpms”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0″
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “Videocard Vendor”
BoardName “nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]”
BusID “PCI:1:0:0″
Screen 0
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard1″
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “Videocard Vendor”
BoardName “nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]”
BusID “PCI:1:0:0″
Screen 1
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0″
Device “Videocard0″
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes “1280×960″
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen1″
Device “Videocard1″
Monitor “Monitor1″
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes “1280×960″
EndSubSection
EndSection

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