i have finally got a linux installation on my main computer. it's kubuntu becasue it's easy and i started late in the day and did want to stay up all night on gentoo!

anyhow i now have a pretty nice os. and it runs so fast. [1.5gig ram makes a big difference]. i have a dual monitor set up in windows and i want to try and get it for linux. i have a nvida card in becasue they have better linux drivers apparently.

where do i start in trying to get this to run? i know enough about linux to just about find my way around and do simple stuff but ive not got much experience so i may be a little slow. thanks in advance.

Start at the nVidia site. Last time I had this type of problem, I searched the nVidia site, and found a page about the drivers for linux, the way to install them and the way to make them work.
You will probably have to do complicated things in the X-Windows environments, or download Linux tools from the nVidia site in order to make the whole thing work. Last time I spent more than one week but at the end the thing worked (er... to be honest it did not really work because I had very old monitors with very poor graphic capabalities, but this is another story).
Regards
Yordan

from my research i have installed the lastest nvidia drivers. i also installed something called nvidia-settings which does almost nothing.

i basically have got as far as this page on their website. i am pretty sure this is all i need to do now. the only problem is i have no idea where i put this stuff or how.

could anyone help with this. all i know is that it is to do with X configuration files.

@organicbmx: The page you mentionned is enough, it gives the things to put in the X-Windows description precisely for this nVidia device. It should be enough if you are familiar with configuring X-windows in Lunux. if not, exactly as stated in the concerned page, you should use "XF86Config(5x) or xorg.conf(5x) manpages."

would anyone [you yordan?] know enough and want to spend their time answering stupid questions from me so that i could get this sorted? im not too urgent at the moment becasue linux is my only distro for a few days and i dont really want to break it.

i read what i could from that link and from a xorg.conf readme and didnt get very far. what i tried to do was to replace the parts of the xorg.conf file with what was on the nvidia page and change a few parameters. i then saved and rebooted and all i got was a bash prompt. whatever i did was useless so i restored my back up.

i can post what i had and what i changed it to if anyone can read X configuration files.