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Re: NVIDIA Twin View



Julian De Marchi <julian@jdcomputers.com.au>  said:
> Hey All,
> 
> I have hooked up a second monitor to my Debian Lenny system. It is
> using the NVIDIA driver on the 2.6.27 kernel. When I use the NVIDIA
> system util to activate the second display, the configuration does not
> stick. By this, I mean if I go back into the NVIDIA config util, the
> settings are gone.
> 
> I have saved the xconfiguration through the NVIDIA gui app, and it
> does save fine.
> 
> I also tried to manually added the second monitor in the xorg.conf
> file, but upon reboot the second monitor does not activate.
> 
> The weird part about this is, when I activate the second monitor it
> does activate and work fine, but upon reboot it is gone, even though
> the xconfig has not changed.

Have you configured it as $USER?
I had to run:
<sudo nvidia-settings> 
and then configure everything for the configuration to carry through.

Cybe R. Wizard
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