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    Problem with Twinview, metamodes, and Resolutions

    I have a problem with Twinview and resolutions. This is my situation, I downloaded a game the other night called Trigger. When I launched Trigger my right screen went blank and the left screen played the game properly, when I stopped the game the right screen turned back on and everything was fine. Upon rebooting though a problem has occured. Both screens are up and functioning, but right after the login the right screen turns off.

    Well I followed some advice given in another forum. Evidently my xorg.conf file was a bit wrong so I was told to start over and build a new xorg.conf with the commnad : nvidia-xconfig --twinview

    Anyway I did this and it still gives me problems. If I have any metamode listed with a NULL option it will only use these. However I can now CTL-ALT-(Num Pad)+/-. But it will only cycle through the metamode options with NULL, the second screen never activates. Here is a copy of my new xorg.conf file.

    Code:
    # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
    # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Mon Oct 16 22:13:07 PDT 2006
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
      Identifier   "Layout0"
      Screen   0 "Screen0"
      InputDevice  "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
      InputDevice  "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
      Option "OffTime" "10"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Files"
      # path to defoma fonts
      FontPath 	  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
      FontPath 	  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
      FontPath 	  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
      FontPath 	  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
      FontPath 	  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
      FontPath 	  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
      FontPath 	  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
      FontPath 	  "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
      RgbPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Module"
      Load      "dbe"
      Load      "extmod"
      Load      "type1"
      Load      "freetype"
      Load      "glx"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
      # generated from default
      Identifier   "Mouse0"
      Driver     "mouse"
      Option     "Protocol" "auto"
      Option     "Device" "/dev/psaux"
      Option     "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
      Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
      # generated from default
      Identifier   "Keyboard0"
      Driver     "kbd"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
      Identifier   "Monitor0"
      vendorname "Mitsubishi"
      modelname "Mitsubishi DiamondPoint NX85 LCD (Analog)"
      HorizSync 31.5-80.0
      VertRefresh 56.0-75.0
      modeline "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
      modeline "640x480@72" 31.5 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -vsync -hsync
      modeline "640x480@75" 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -vsync -hsync
      modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "800x600@72" 50.0 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "800x600@75" 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "832x624@75" 57.284 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -vsync -hsync
      modeline "1024x768@75" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "1024x768@70" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
      modeline "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
      modeline "1152x864@75" 108.0 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "1280x1024@75" 135.0 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "1280x960@60" 102.1 1280 1360 1496 1712 960 961 964 994 -hsync +vsync
      modeline "1280x1024@60" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "1280x960@75" 129.86 1280 1368 1504 1728 960 961 964 1002 -hsync +vsync
      modeline "1400x1050@60" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync +vsync
      modeline "1400x1050@75" 155.85 1400 1496 1648 1896 1050 1051 1054 1096 -hsync +vsync
      modeline "1600x1200@65" 175.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "1600x1200@60" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
      modeline "1792x1344@60" 204.8 1792 1920 2120 2448 1344 1345 1348 1394 -hsync +vsync
      gamma 1.0
      Option "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
      Identifier   "Device0"
      Driver     "nvidia"
      VendorName   "NVIDIA Corporation"
      Option "NvAGP" "3"
      Option "ConnectedMonitor" "crt, crt"
      Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31.5-80"
      Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "56-75"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
      Identifier   "Screen0"
      Device     "Device0"
      Monitor    "Monitor0"
      DefaultDepth  24
      Option     "TwinView" "True"
      Option     "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
      Option     "UseEdidFreqs" "True"
      Option     "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; 1024x768, 1024x768; 1024x768, NULL; 800x600, NULL"
      SubSection   "Display"
        Depth    24
        Modes   "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
      EndSubSection
    EndSection
    Again, everything works great until I login in. I'm beginning to think my issue lies within KDE itself. Before my problems started I installed the game, but I also tried to reset the monitor power off time increment through the display manager in KDE. This must have had some effect on a setting. It must be a file that gets read in my personal profile for KDE?

    I don't know anything about the details of this. Does KDE keep display settings too? Does KDE keep these settings in a profile somewhere? I think I have the problems fixed with Xorg.conf I just need to tackle the KDE thing?

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    Re: Problem with Twinview, metamodes, and Resolutions

    Well it is definitely with KDE because I created a new user and both screens work just fine, and the display manager works. This tells me the problem has to be in my /home/"user"/.kde directory somewhere.

    Anyone have any ideas what config file I need to look at?

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