2009-03-26 - Fedora Test Day - Nouveau graphics driver

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu Mar 26 15:41:19 UTC 2009


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Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote:
> I Can't make my second monitor work with norveau
> 
> I am using lasted rawhide.
> 
> 
> mirroring screen works, but I don't want a mirrored screen (I want
> independent screens)
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:43:17PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 17:40:19 -0500,
>>>>   Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
>>>>> I must be doing something wrong, but enabling modeset on grub boot tells
>>>>> me incorrect parameter?  If you wanted to edit your grub.conf itself and
>>>>> add it there , would someone post theirs and show me what line and how
>>>>> it's set for it to work?  I've done it via grub.conf and tried via just
>>>>> boot up and adding it before booting and either way gives me an error.
>>>> modeset is the default. You use nomodeset to turn it off.
>>> This wasn't my experience on the Test Day Live image.  I had to use
>>> the modeset parameter to explicitly enable modesetting.
>> Modesetting is only on by default on ATI and Intel. Nvidia, it is opt-in.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
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There's a current Xorg limitation with virtual screen size maxing out at
1920x1920, so if the sum of the vertical or horizontal sizes of your
screen exceeds 1920, it won't work.

This can be fixed in the xorg.conf with
Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Virtual 3600 1200
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

for example

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