Fedora 10, KDE4 - dual monitors
Kevin Kempter
kevin at kevinkempterllc.com
Tue Jan 27 15:29:09 UTC 2009
Hi All;
I've had several issues with my new laptop & Fedora 10 per the nvidia video
card so I eventually ended up with a config where I've removed kmod-nvidia (I
had tried the driver from the nvidia site as well) and I have an xorg.conf file
that specifies a 'vesa' driver.
This allows me to have true 1920x1200 resolution but I cannot get dual
monitors to work - I cannot even plug in an external monitor and toggle
to/from it as the only display via Fn-F8 (this has worked with past laptops
running KDE 3.x)
So, my question is, how do I go about setting up dual monitors ? Does this
require that I go back to the kmod-nvidia driver or can I pull it off via the
current 'vesa' driver?
Note that if I dont have an xorg.conf file then I get a config where the system
reports that it's running at 1920x1200 but in reality it's more like 1280x800.
This was the main issue with the kmod-nvidia driver back in December before I
removed it.
an lspci shows this:
lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 061e (rev a2)
and my xorg.conf file looks like this:
$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
HorizSync 31.5 - 74.5
VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
Thanks in advance
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