Dual Monitor Question

[v3trae]

Running Kubuntu 8.10, kde4.2 and nvidia drivers 180.

Everythings fine for the most part, really only problem i'm having is when running off a fresh boot (or fresh restart of X) dual monitors are disabled and i need to go back into the settings and turn them on, once i've done so, all desktop effects are disabled and i also have to go in and enable them all again.

Curious if there's any more information on how i could fix this problem.

Happy to supply any other information necessary.

Thank you in advance.

[jankushka]

Re: Dual Monitor Question

bear in mind that:
a) kde is undergoing a major changes
b) x is undergoing a major changes
c) you are using experimental software

also...
i'm still on kde4.1.4 and latest -177 nvidia driver

this said...
i assume you mean you want 1 big screen out of 2 monitors.

i have this working no problems with the following xorg.conf (notice how all the input devices stuff is gone) file:

Section "Device"
  Identifier   "Videocard0"
  Driver     "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier   "Monitor0"
  HorizSync    30.0 - 81.0
  VertRefresh   56.0 - 75.0
  Option     "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier   "Screen0"
  Device     "Videocard0"
  Monitor    "Monitor0"
  DefaultDepth  24
  Option     "NoLogo" "on"
  Option     "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "on"
  Option     "RenderAccel" "on"
  Option     "TwinView" "on"
  Option     "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
  SubSection   "Display"
    Depth    24
  EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
  Option     "Composite" "on"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option     "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

my laptop's monitor (DFP-0) takes precedence over the external lcd (TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder).
so that kde's panel, for example, is on that monitor and not on the other.

if you want to test this:
a) back up your current /etc/X11/xorg.conf
b) move this one in its place (you'll need admin privileges to do this)
c) hit ctrl-alt-backspace to restart the x server (current session is ended, you're thrown back to kdm's login dialog)

hth

[v3trae]

Re: Dual Monitor Question

Beautiful, got it to work by first loading your xorg in, then going back into settings to adjust (as sudo) .


Fired right up with no problems after that.

Thank you very much =)

[jankushka]

Re: Dual Monitor Question

good.
meanwhile i updated to the -180 drivers.
so, thank you!
take care.