I appears I was correct about the two card setup NOT being supported correctly. (title is correct).
I have more work to do on it but for now managed to get nvidia-settings to work well in twinview for a change. The graphical part works now, and the twinview setting is no longer grayed out. This was broken quite a while (2 months?) but not flagged right away. Must have been not many had that hardware setup of two video cards (4 DVI ports in all) and using one cable from each card. Mel On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Mel Walters <melwalt...@telus.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 18:22 -0600, Rick Johnson wrote: > > Is this still about getting a second display working for presentations? > No it is not about presentations. My eeePC netbook still works great > with Debian squeeze and the driver FOSS driver it came with. I just > tried it with another monitor and it's Fn F8 key works great. Not much > more tricky to get it working with the projector, as i know from when I > gave a presentation. > > No, this is an ongoing problem with my desktop workstation. > > Mel > > > If so > > its quite easy to do with the nvidia-settings app. You don't need to mess > > around with config files either, Nvidia-settings does that for you. You > need to > > let it write a xorg.conf and save it to your /home directory because you > need > > to be root to put it where it actually needs to go. Do the setup, save > the file > > then su and cp the file to /etc/X11. once the config is done, the second > display > > will work when you connect it and restart x and go back to normal single > > display when you disconnect it. > > > > On Monday 25 April 2011 18:07:56 Mel Walters wrote: > > > Now I see some references to this claim: > > > > > > [all variants] RandR 1.3 won't support multiple video cards > > > > > > Now I am thinking this could have been causing my problems? > > > > > > My next step could be try putting both video cables on one of my cards. > > > > > > Could it be those who told me it was easy did not run two cards? > > > > > > This is way too difficult and should not be happening. Not exactly a > > > stellar user experience from Nvidia driver or their nvidia-settings > > > program. > > > > > > Seriously thinking of going back to nuveau[FOSS] till nvidia gets their > > > act together. > > > > > > Mel > > > > > > nvidia-kernel-195.36.31-6 > > > > > > Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 > > > > > > Debian squeeze (stable) > > > > > > mwalters@hawk:~$ xrandr -v > > > xrandr program version 1.3.3 > > > Server reports RandR version 1.3 > > > > > > mwalters@hawk:~$ lspci |grep VGA > > > 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 > > > GT] (rev a2) > > > > > > 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 > > > GT] (rev a2) > > > > > > mwalters@hawk:~$ xrandr -q > > > xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default > > > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1600 x 1200 > > > default connected 1600x1200+0+0 0mm x 0mm > > > 1600x1200 50.0* > > > 1600x1024 51.0 > > > 1440x900 52.0 > > > 1400x1050 53.0 54.0 55.0 56.0 57.0 > > > 1360x768 58.0 59.0 > > > 1280x1024 60.0 61.0 62.0 > > > 1280x960 63.0 64.0 > > > 1152x864 65.0 66.0 67.0 68.0 69.0 70.0 > > > 71.0 > > > 1024x768 72.0 73.0 74.0 75.0 76.0 77.0 > > > 960x720 78.0 79.0 > > > 960x600 80.0 > > > 960x540 81.0 > > > 928x696 82.0 83.0 > > > 896x672 84.0 85.0 > > > 840x525 86.0 87.0 88.0 89.0 90.0 > > > 832x624 91.0 > > > 800x600 92.0 93.0 94.0 95.0 96.0 97.0 > > > 98.0 99.0 100.0 101.0 > > > 800x512 102.0 > > > 720x450 103.0 > > > 720x400 104.0 > > > 700x525 105.0 106.0 107.0 108.0 > > > 680x384 109.0 110.0 > > > 640x512 111.0 112.0 113.0 > > > 640x480 114.0 115.0 116.0 117.0 118.0 119.0 > > > 120.0 121.0 > > > 640x400 122.0 123.0 > > > 640x350 124.0 > > > 576x432 125.0 126.0 127.0 128.0 129.0 130.0 > > > 131.0 > > > 512x384 132.0 133.0 134.0 135.0 136.0 > > > 416x312 137.0 > > > 400x300 138.0 139.0 140.0 141.0 142.0 > > > 360x200 143.0 > > > 320x240 144.0 145.0 146.0 147.0 > > > 320x200 148.0 > > > 320x175 149.0 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > >
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