twin-view setup (give me an XF86Config please)

[reflection666]

hello again ppl

 

I simply cant get my second mointor to work... (it works on windoze)

 

Can someone post a WORKING XF86Config for mdk10.1 TFT leftof CRT (both 1280x1024 @ 60)

and exclamate the points of interest so I can learn too...

 

Thanx!

 

[devries]

Section "Device"

    Identifier "device1"

    VendorName "nVidia Corp."

    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"

    Driver "nvidia"

    Option "DPMS"

    Option "Twinview" "TRUE"

    Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "2"

    Option "CursorShadowXOffse" "4"

    Option "CursorShadow" "TRUE"

    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP , TV"

    Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"

    Option "DigitalVibrance" "0"

    Option "MetaModes" "1024x768 +0+0, 800x600 @800x768 -800+0; 1024x768 +0+0,800x600 @1024x768 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0, NULL;  NULL, 800x600"

    Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"

    Option "RenderAccel" "TRUE"

    Option "TransparentIndex" "0"

    Option "NvAGP" "3"

    Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"

    Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "64"

    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

EndSection

 

And look here: http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/nv-online/

[reflection666]

Thanks, but dont I have to edit device,monitor,screen and server layout sections?

[devries]

No, only section device.

[adamw]

You don't need "TRUE" after TwinView and RenderAccel; they're not booleans. Just "Option" "TwinView" is fine.

 

I found I had to tell the Screen section the correct virtual resolution when I was running dual monitors (1824x768, or whatever), but YMMV.

[iphitus]

And it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf now not /etx/X11/XF86Config

[coverup]

Does anybody have "twin view" working with ATI's fglrx? I have seen many reports that this should work, but I could not get it working, no matter what. I have an LCD screen 1400x1050 and an external 1280x1024@75Hz LCD TFT monitor connected to the port replicator's DVI output (the laptop has only VGA output). As you can imagine, Windows does not have problems with this setup. I can get the external screen to work when I start X with

Option "DesktopSetup"               "0x00000100"
Option "MonitorLayout"              "TMDS, AUTO"

but never can get two screens to show the same content.

[reflection666]

And it's /etc/X11/xorg.conf now not /etx/X11/XF86Config

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

On MDK 10.1? But all the editing I do (keyboard,mouse,screen) is on XF86Config... And everything (xcept nvidia twinview) works.

 

???

[adamw]

well, on 10.1, they're symlinks (I think xorg.conf is a symlink to XF86Config, but it might be the other way around), so it doesn't really matter which one you point your editor at :)

[VeeDubb]

Too right adamw, and it's xorg.conf that's the symlink on my system. XF86Config is the real file, even after updating to thac's kde3.4 and the new x .org that came with it.

[adamw]

It's the other way around on 2005. Later on we'll probably dump the XF86Config symlink, just like there's no XF86Config-4 anymore.

[reflection666]

Section "Device"

    Identifier "device1"

    VendorName "nVidia Corp."

    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"

    Driver "nvidia"

    Option "DPMS"

    Option "Twinview" "TRUE"

    Option "CursorShadowYOffset" "2"

    Option "CursorShadowXOffse" "4"

    Option "CursorShadow" "TRUE"

    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP , TV"

    Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"

    Option "DigitalVibrance" "0"

    Option "MetaModes" "1024x768 +0+0, 800x600 @800x768 -800+0; 1024x768 +0+0,800x600 @1024x768 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0, NULL;  NULL, 800x600"

    Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"

    Option "RenderAccel" "TRUE"

    Option "TransparentIndex" "0"

    Option "NvAGP" "3"

    Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"

    Option "CursorShadowAlpha" "64"

    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

EndSection

 

And look here: http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/nv-online/

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

OUGH!

 

this gave me two blank screens (out of range - like, not blank), when I edited the refresh rates it gave me my old back... (one TFT, CRT on orange light -> no signal)