I have a problem with Twinview and resolutions. This is my situation, I downloaded a game the other night called Trigger. When I launched Trigger my right screen went blank and the left screen played the game properly, when I stopped the game the right screen turned back on and everything was fine. Upon rebooting though a problem has occured. Both screens are up and functioning, but right after the login the right screen turns off.
Well I followed some advice given in another forum. Evidently my xorg.conf file was a bit wrong so I was told to start over and build a new xorg.conf with the commnad : nvidia-xconfig --twinview
Anyway I did this and it still gives me problems. If I have any metamode listed with a NULL option it will only use these. However I can now CTL-ALT-(Num Pad)+/-. But it will only cycle through the metamode options with NULL, the second screen never activates. Here is a copy of my new xorg.conf file.
Again, everything works great until I login in. I'm beginning to think my issue lies within KDE itself. Before my problems started I installed the game, but I also tried to reset the monitor power off time increment through the display manager in KDE. This must have had some effect on a setting. It must be a file that gets read in my personal profile for KDE?
I don't know anything about the details of this. Does KDE keep display settings too? Does KDE keep these settings in a profile somewhere? I think I have the problems fixed with Xorg.conf I just need to tackle the KDE thing?
Well I followed some advice given in another forum. Evidently my xorg.conf file was a bit wrong so I was told to start over and build a new xorg.conf with the commnad : nvidia-xconfig --twinview
Anyway I did this and it still gives me problems. If I have any metamode listed with a NULL option it will only use these. However I can now CTL-ALT-(Num Pad)+/-. But it will only cycle through the metamode options with NULL, the second screen never activates. Here is a copy of my new xorg.conf file.
Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder3) Mon Oct 16 22:13:07 PDT 2006
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "OffTime" "10"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
vendorname "Mitsubishi"
modelname "Mitsubishi DiamondPoint NX85 LCD (Analog)"
HorizSync 31.5-80.0
VertRefresh 56.0-75.0
modeline "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
modeline "640x480@72" 31.5 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -vsync -hsync
modeline "640x480@75" 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -vsync -hsync
modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@72" 50.0 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@75" 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
modeline "832x624@75" 57.284 832 864 928 1152 624 625 628 667 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1024x768@75" 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1024x768@70" 75.0 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
modeline "1152x864@75" 108.0 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x1024@75" 135.0 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x960@60" 102.1 1280 1360 1496 1712 960 961 964 994 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x1024@60" 108.0 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x960@75" 129.86 1280 1368 1504 1728 960 961 964 1002 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1400x1050@60" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1400x1050@75" 155.85 1400 1496 1648 1896 1050 1051 1054 1096 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1600x1200@65" 175.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1600x1200@60" 162.0 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1792x1344@60" 204.8 1792 1920 2120 2448 1344 1345 1348 1394 -hsync +vsync
gamma 1.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "crt, crt"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31.5-80"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "56-75"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "True"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "True"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; 1024x768, 1024x768; 1024x768, NULL; 800x600, NULL"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
I don't know anything about the details of this. Does KDE keep display settings too? Does KDE keep these settings in a profile somewhere? I think I have the problems fixed with Xorg.conf I just need to tackle the KDE thing?
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