Re: Nvidia driver and second screen
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:18 +0200
Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I found out that second displays are no longer detected with the closed
> source nvidia driver. Neither nvidia's nvidia-settings tool, nor xrandr
> shows the second display. Also entering some monitor info directly into
> xorg.conf hasn't solved my issues. Using the open source nv driver
> works, but the video performance is then rather slow.
> I tried the newest driver directly from nvidia, to no avail. Has anybody
> else had similar problems? I filed a bug report at nvidia, but maybe
> somebody on this list can help me too.
>
> Sjoerd
>
I'm not having any trouble, but as a start, what hardware (video card, laptop
or desktop) and what driver from nvidia? Also just for the sake of
completeness, what kernel?
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