dual screen headache

[msknight]

Hi Folks,

Situation, 9.10 KDE, Nvidea card. One 19" monitor on analogue, one 22" monitor on digital.

As "Twin View" everything works. The 19" is off to my left and is treated as X console 0. The 22" wide screen is directly in front of me, is the one I use for photo editing and is X console 1.

Now, when I play a game, taking it up to full screen results in it being spread across screens. Not good.

I converted them to separate screens, but the system took the 19" as the KDE desktop and the 22", ended up as a blank X window ... meaning the mouse went in to it perfectly ... I had an X instead of a pointer ... but I couldn't do anything with it ... not even create a terminal session on it.

... and no way to tell the system to take the 22" as the main monitor and disregard the 19".

In other words, all attempts to swap the two monitors has failed.

What I have done is to edit the xorg.conf file, but no joy.

Here is the standard xorg.conf, with twin view enabled, that works ...

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings  
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@crested) Sun Feb 1 20:25:37 UTC 2009


Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout0"
  Screen   0 "Screen0" 0 0
  InputDevice  "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse0" "CorePointer"  
EndSection                  

Section "Files"
EndSection   

Section "Module"
  Load      "dbe"
  Load      "extmod"
  Load      "type1" 
  Load      "freetype"
  Load      "glx"   
EndSection          

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option     "Xinerama" "0"
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"                                                          
                                                                  
  # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid                                       
  Identifier   "Monitor0"                                                    
  VendorName   "Unknown"                                                    
  ModelName   "AOC WJ1980PI"                                                  
  HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0                                                   
  VertRefresh   50.0 - 76.0
  Option     "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier   "Monitor1"
  VendorName   "Unknown"
  ModelName   "Korea Data System KL2200DW"
  HorizSync    24.0 - 85.0
  VertRefresh   56.0 - 76.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier   "Device0"
  Driver     "nvidia"
  VendorName   "NVIDIA Corporation"
  BoardName   "GeForce 210"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Identifier   "Device1"
  Driver     "nvidia"
  VendorName   "NVIDIA Corporation"
  BoardName   "GeForce 210"
  BusID     "PCI:1:0:0"
  Screen     1
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "TwinView" "1"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
# Removed Option "TwinView" "0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
  Identifier   "Screen0"
  Device     "Device0"
  Monitor    "Monitor0"
  DefaultDepth  24
  Option     "TwinView" "1"
  Option     "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
  SubSection   "Display"
    Depth    24
  EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier   "Screen1"
  Device     "Device1"
  Monitor    "Monitor1"
  DefaultDepth  24
  Option     "TwinView" "0"
  Option     "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
  SubSection   "Display"
    Depth    24
  EndSubSection
EndSection

So ... any ideas please ... I'm getting a crick in my neck trying to play UT2004 :-)

[lmilano]

Re: dual screen headache

Hi

This might help, although I thought nvidia had a GUI to config this
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3107874.0

HTH!

[msknight]

Re: dual screen headache

Thanks for the try! Unfortunately it didn't work. It either pushed me through to the Nvidea configuration tool or else it would start, but not find the second monitor.

Worth a try though! Many thanks.