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Re: Dual Monitor How To?



On 18/07/11 06:53, Alan Chandler wrote:
On 17/07/11 16:30, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-07-17 16:22 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote:

I've recently upgraded by desktop computer so it now has Intel H67
Integrated Graphics built into the motherboard and I have an
additional Geforce 8400GS graphics card in the PCI-express slot. I
have two monitors, the primary an 24in Iiyama connected via hdmi cable
to the mother boards graphics and an older 17in Iiyama connected via
VGA (no other choice) cable to the Geforce card.

After a brief check of the BIOS settings, I got it to boot with the
primary monitor being the H67 integrated graphics

Booting up Debian (unstable) the graphics displayed fine on the
primary monitor and the secondary monitor gained a few diagnostic
messages during boot (seemingly related to its graphics card) but
nothing else.

Can you please show the output of "dmesg | grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'"?

Sven



[ 5.298727] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 5.536118] [drm] MTRR allocation failed. Graphics performance may suffer.
[ 5.536287] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[ 5.536288] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 5.549553] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
[ 5.549559] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) ->
IRQ 16
[ 5.549563] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 5.905240] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 6.083714] fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[ 6.083715] drm: registered panic notifier
[ 6.083805] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on
minor 0
[ 6.084809] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Unsupported chipset 0xffffffff
[ 6.085247] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 6.085250] nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22



I've swapped back to trying to use this driver and my NON transparent
icon problem has disappeared, but I am left with this issue with the
nouveau driver; Quite which unsupported chipset it is refering to





Life gets stranger. A reboot this evening and this problem no longer occurs in dmesg

I also eventually get the format of BusID options correct in my Xorg.conf file and now both screens are working again with the nouveau driver alongside the intel one EXCEPT as soon as I get both screens up (as opposed to just the intel one) the icons loose their transparency round the edge in Gnome Panel and Desktop/

--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk


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