Thanks for the input. I managed after much fiddling to get the display
back on track.
But there is still something strange going on. Each morning now when I
get to the computer the left monitor is dead, i.e. it doesn't seem to
have a data signal. The only way to bring it back is to power down the
Hi Markus,
I had a similar problem and what I had to do was just mv the
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file out of the way (I think system-config-display
might be failing on trying to parse your exising xorg.conf file.) I had this
problem with my ATI card but it might work for you too.
-Tomas
Müslüm Ejder
Hi Markus,
i had 2 Displays connected on 2 devices
1 Nvidia on Board
1 Nvidia on AGP
if u have two Videocards you must go into your PC-BIOS and specify the
Videocard where your Primary Display Connected as your Primary one.
but most people using only 1 Videocard for two Displays
When I try to run system-config-display as root I get the following
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in
dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig,
videocard.VideoCardInfo())
File "/usr/share/system-config-dis
