Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

[Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com>]

Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org> writes:

> In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait mode.  With 
> the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which set these two displays 
> to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very nice.  I would now like to do the 
> same thing in Debian 12, but with Debian 12 I cannot find the package 
> nvidia-settings.  The page https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/nvidia-settings 
> talks about the package but doesn't mention a repository that I can access with 
> synaptic.
>
> Is there some way of getting to this package?
>
> Roger
>

Looks like nvidia-settings comes from "contrib".  Have you enabled the
contrib repository in your apt settings?  Something like below:

,----
| deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
| #                                                ^^^^^^^
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Regards,
Xiyue Deng