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dual screen solution on ubuntu 9.04 jaunty with nvidia

after updating to the new version of jaunty of course the dual screen stuff did not work anymore. the xorg.conf couldnt be read anymore, and even couldnt be backed up....

anyways, after update was complete i needed to play around a bit.

to get dual screens in jaunty running again with synergy i then found the folowing solution:

i started System>Administration>"Hardware Drivers", activated the revommended NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 180), rebootet and then started nvidia-xconfig.
now i started System>Administration>Nvidia XServer Settings, enabled under "X Server Display configuration" the second screen again, changed the configuration to "TwinView" and everything was fine.
Seems ATM i am not using Xitami extensions anymore.

now only thing that needs to be done after update is is... i need to get my broken gcc running again....

after my update from hardy to jaunty (with middle-step updating to interprid) i was surprised to find that the build-essential package wasnt installed any more. after reinstalling... i still cannot compile, but i will will have a look now

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