F10: KDE and second display not working

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 18:56:26 UTC 2008


I have 2 displays working with KDE4.1.3 in F10.   I set them up with
nvidia-settings.  Make sure you run it as root so you can save the
resulting xorg.conf file.   And you have to reboot in order for the
settings to take place.  Apply doesn't set them properly. 




On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 17:49 +0100, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> I'm running a two-display setup with my laptop (Dell Precision M65) as
> screen 0 and a second LCD screen as screen 1 (through the proprietary
> nvidia drivers).
> 
> This works perfectly fine in gnome. If I log in with KDE I get a
> desktop, toolbars etc. on Screen 0, but only the desktop background on
> Screen 1 (no icons, no toolbar, no menu when right-clicking). I had
> the same problem in F9, where I just gave up and started using Gnome.
> 
> Has anyone experienced anything similar/have any tips on how to fix
> this? I'd really like to go back to KDE soon :)
> 
> This is with a fully updated F10 install in addition to:
> kmod-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-177.82-1.fc10.4.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-177.82-1.fc10.i386
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-177.82-1.fc10.i386
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Tarjei
> 




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