Can the nv driver support dual monitors in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?

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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later

The xorg-x11-drv-nv video driver for NVIDIA hardware has limited dualhead support for G80 and G90 series hardware. Typical names for these products are of the form "GeForce 8xxx" or "GeForce 9xxx".

To check whether your device is a G80 or newer:

# lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatib...

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