patiently says x11/nvidia-settings
patiently says x11/nvidia-settings
I had hernia repair done a few days ago, hence my excuse. Can't do anything strenuous and sore as hell.Looks like our forums gets more and more a play field and sanctuary for the elderly among us. Please be nice to them while trying to be patient.
Yeah, we know and it's been mentioned twice by me though once incorrectly. Keeps the kids on their toes.patiently says x11/nvidia-settings
ziomario Now this is strange to me. I don't have that pkg installed. So how did I get dual monitors working? Do I misremember that the old driver now detects that on its own? Very possible now that I think of it because xorg.conf isn't needed anymore but it's been so long that I don't remember what I did last time.
Don't treat them as gospel though, I do make mistakes every once in a while.because the suggestions of @SirDice are rarely wrong.
This is reported most when risible muscles got degenerated while trying to lift heavyweight intellectual properties. Try to have at all times enough stuff to laugh at and do it cordially and loud.I had hernia ...
~/bin/reset-xrandr.sh
#!/bin/sh
xrandr --output LVDS-1 --auto --rotate normal --pos 0x0 --output DP-1 --auto --rotate normal --right-of LVDS-1
I don't know if this was mentioned before, you can blame it on me getting old, but here is what I did:
My .xinitrc contains a line saying
with that script beingCode:~/bin/reset-xrandr.sh
After that, it starts the screen saver and wmaker.Code:#!/bin/sh xrandr --output LVDS-1 --auto --rotate normal --pos 0x0 --output DP-1 --auto --rotate normal --right-of LVDS-1 --output DP-1 --auto --rotate normal --right-of LVDS-1
This is for a single GPU i915 laptop. It tells the xrands there are multiple monitors, where they are connected and where they are placed with regard to each other. This sets up Xorg to treat them as one surface, and the window system can work with one DISPLAY. Try it out, it will not fry your hardware and even good old twm should work with it. Of course you need to adjust the port names, the resolutions and maybe the placement.
# xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
1920x1080 60.00*+ 59.94 50.00
1680x1050 59.95
1440x900 59.89
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1280x960 60.00
1280x720 60.00 59.94 50.00
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
800x600 75.00 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 59.94 59.93
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
You have checked the X Server Display Configuration in nvidia-settings and activated both displays?
„X Server Display Configuration“
DO NOT USE XORG.CONF!Do you have a working xorg.conf file to try ? I tried many but no one worked.