Re: NVIDIA Twin View

[Magnus Pedersen <bofhenator@gmail.com>]

Julian De Marchi wrote:
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> Hey All,
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> 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.
>
> My lenny system is up-to-date. Playing with displays are new to me, so
> I do not know what to include to help. Basically I am looking for
> pointers to assist me troubleshoot the issue. I have searched for the
> answer, by my google-fu is useless.
>
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> Cheers,
> Julian De Marchi

The relevant part of ny xorg.conf, it might help:
Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
#       Option          "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
        Option         "TwinView" "1"
        Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, 
DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

/Magnus